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June 30, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cowboy #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1892.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"The Venezuela difficulty settled."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1896.
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The Right Word (permalink)
If you know your capitial O's from ciphers, you can decode this rhyme.  From Chatterbox, 1895.
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#poem #cipher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Crow and the Whitewash by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 1921.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"The Pastry Peddlers."  From Shadowland, 1923.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #skull #vintage yearbook #secret society #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
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#vintage illustration #ice #cave #ice cavern
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Sudden panic, from Lighted Pathway, 1984.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #keg #vintage yearbook #yearbook #banjo #mandolin #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's overly-dramatic cactus is from the University of Arizona's 1953 yearbook.  See This Book is a Cactus.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 1896.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From MacMurray College's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage ad #cat #1960s #vintage woman #blue eyes
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Obelists at Sea, by C. Daly King:

[Partial dramatis personae attached.]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #cheetah
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June 29, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #1930s #illustration #woodchuck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fabeln by by Peter Hagboldt, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #fable #fox #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Is this happening now?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #galaxy #vintage headline #illustration #planets #headline
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Old News (permalink)
Though it famously killed the cat, "Curiosity not fatal."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#curiosity #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #sleeping #vintage headline #bathtub #headline
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1884.
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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 #horse #stranded at sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #three bears #porridge
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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 #winter weather #darkness #winter #old man winter #jack frost #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #castle #crystal ball #queen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #seeing double #numbers #adding machine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Teacher's College's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #catamount #heraldry #cat-a-mountain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #princess
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #sun #native american
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Old News (permalink)
"I can't come through the gate.  The lock ison your side, and the key is in the lock."  From The Improvement Era, 1969.
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#vintage headline #key #lock #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Hampden-Sydney College had a suicide club with seven members.  From the 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #suicide #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spider
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Invisible threads are the strongest ties. —Nietzsche."  From Tufts University's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #vintage yearbook #lion
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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 #fashion #vintage fashion #actor
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June 28, 2024

Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1959.  Answers: Across - bus, ash, lot, moon.  Down - ball, sat, thy, go.  
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#vintage illustration #illustration #crossword puzzle #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 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 #goat #snake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Did you ever cross the ocean on a sheep?"  From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College'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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Go home again -- we don't care."  From Welcome to Our City by Julian Street, 1913.
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#inhospitable #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Asteroid armageddon coming, or maybe not."  From The National Post, 2002.
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#armageddon #end of the world #vintage headline #asteroid #headline #fear mongering
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Central Michigan University's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus #sign #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #oz #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #incense #masonic #smoke #censer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cowboy #rodeo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #money #dollar sign #solvency
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio College of Dental Surgery's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baseball #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #tree of knowledge #1910s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
There are ten firecrackers hidden in this picture (quite difficult to find), but we're technically here for the cluster of imps.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #imp #hidden pictures
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ventriloquism #1940s #ventriloquist #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #winter #winter spirit #frost #frost queen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time" (A Midsummer Night's Dream).  From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.
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#snow #architecture #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #midnight #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"Normal, though an actor."  From Motion Picture Classic, 1930.
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#vintage headline #headline #actor
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Plot-Maker, by William Hewlett:

[I note that this is the second time Hewlett characters have interjected a *singular* "fiddlestick" for us--so now we have a pair, though I guess a violinist really needs only one at a time. Likewise, the "permutations and combinations" business had its double in the last WH book I read.)]

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A beastly-looking man with a face like a tooth.

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It was difficult to be impressive in a blanket, but Arthur managed it.

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uttering shrill, staccato oaths

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He was in great disorder; his wig had fallen off, and his carefully contrived false stomach had worked 'round to his back. [Alas, this book has no illustrations.]

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Meaker drifted about like a damaged but still inflated balloon.
***

[Bonus: A presumably fictitious author writing sensational novels under the name "Zox."]






















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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #locomotive #mail carrier #postman #illustration
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June 27, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#vampire #riddles #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Friends and New Fables by Alice Talwin Morris and illustrated by Carton Moorpark, 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 #squirrel #illustration #1910s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Cats and Kttens by Edgar Werner, 1906.
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#cat #vintage photo #1900s #kitten #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pirate #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As without, so within.  From Winthrop University's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sports #vintage yearbook #football
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A repulsive job, washing handkerchiefs."  From Movie Classic, 1931.
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#vintage ad #laundry #handkerchief #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Augustana College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #typewriter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #anthropomorphism #rabbit #letter f
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The True Story of Humpty Dumpty by Anna Alice Chapin, 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 #owl #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Extracurricular.  From Methodist College's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The young Orpheus.  From Scribner's 1877.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animals #musician #orpheus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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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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#native american #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Power?  To do what?"  From The Improvement Era, 1969.
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#power #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ape #animal attack #tarzan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #faceless #facing the wrong way #no face #facing backward
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Phoenix to Dodo: "My good fowl, nobody loves you; you're obsolete, and you ought to be extinct. Why don't you do like me—make a bonfire of yourself, and start again without a past?"  From Punch, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #phoenix #dodo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Migraine Auras: When the Visual World Fails by Richard Grossinger, 2006. 
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#vintage illustration #migraine
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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 #night #staring into the depths
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"'Silverlocks' who had a needle removed in successful operation."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1931.
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#cat #vintage photo #1930s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Retreats bring people together in situations of mutual heart searching."  From Together, 1959.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 men #illustration #men #1950s #retreat
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June 26, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #1940s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Does your dog like music?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1946.
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#musical animal #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The restless goddess who fain would spin can use a flash for a knitting pin" ("The Storm" by M. Forrest, in Cartoons Magazine, 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 #goddess #cherubs #yarn #knitting #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 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 #devil #garden of eden #adam and eve #biblical
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Small Press Postscript (Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, no. 14).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spiral
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College'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 #warrior
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's fly on the nose is from the University of Western Ontario's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #fly #1940s #vintage man
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Fairy Circles by Villamaria, 1877.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #sea serpent
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Female Seminary's 1893 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Why are aliens so boring?"  From the National Post, 2005.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spider web #caught in a web
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1969.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #prayer #rock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Midland College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #comb
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Old News (permalink)
"Evil doers very thick."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#evil #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lees-McRae College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #electrified #electricity #electrical pole #electric shock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Visions Beyond the Veil by H. A. Baker, 1973.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#life after death #heaven #vintage book #book #beyond the veil #afterlife #castle in the air
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lightning #1920s #electricity #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #illustration #snowy egret
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June 25, 2024

Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1969.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #wind #wind god #1960s #illustration #wind deity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"[The] snow-man was miserable too."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"What is it we fear in visitors from space?  That they might be like us?"  From The Aberree, 1960.
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#ufo #vintage headline #alien #headline #space visitors
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1899 yearbook.

*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 #jackass #party people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flower #watering can
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield State Teachers College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1929.
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#cat #vintage hollywood #hollywood #vintage woman
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
This prayer is a Googlewhack: "O sterner angel of life's bitter ways, turn back my steps unto those halcyon days."  From Swarthmore College's 1904 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A letter from an old friend."  (Note how he shredded that envelope to get to the message.)  From Chatterbox, 1892. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage man #bed #man in bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace College's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #peace #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
The bobbed hair fad of 1920 recalled a tragic period in France.  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#1920s #vintage headline #hair style #headline #bobbed hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #vintage yearbook #yearbook #diagram #anatomy
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Old News (permalink)
From Not of This World by Peter Kolosimo, 1974.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story Book of Nick and Dick by Arthur Gates.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cookies
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College'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 #strong woman #furniture #moving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kak, the Copper Eskimo by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Violet Irwin and illustrated by George Richards, 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 #canoe #eskimo #kayak
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1913 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #oz #tin woodman
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Wodehouse snippets:

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The Joyous Eyebrow [fictitious Broadway play]

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Blue sea, gleaming Casino, cloudless sky, and all the rest of the hippodrome.

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Lord Wildersham (pronounced Wing, to rime with Chiddingfold)

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“Oh, don’t try and be funny, for goodness’ sake!” snapped Miss Verepoint. “It doesn’t suit you. You haven’t the right shape of head.”

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“Moom?”
“It’s spelt M-o-f-f-a-m, but pronounced Moom.”
“To rhyme,” said Archie, helpfully, “with Bluffinghame.”

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“I would do anything in my power to oblige the friend of a man whose cousin has met my brother at a garden-party, but there are no vacancies, I fear.”

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In theatrical circles especially it holds a position which might turn the white lights of many a supper palace green with envy.

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“I seen turnips with more spirit in ’em that what you’ve got. And Brussels sprouts. Yes, and parsnips.”

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“Some day I knew I should meet the only girl I could possibly love, and then I would pour out upon her the stored-up devotion of a lifetime, lay an unblemished heart at her feet, fold her in my arms and say, ‘At last!’ ”
“How jolly for her. Like having a circus all to one’s self.”

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The collected jaws of the family fell as one jaw. Muriel herself seemed to be bearing the blow with fortitude, but the rest were stunned. Frank and Percy might have been posing for a picture of men who had lost their fountain pens.

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[Cinquevalli again (and last time it wasn't Wodehouse)!]
Although Dermot Windleband described himself as a Napoleon of Finance, a Cinquevalli of Finance would, perhaps, have been the more accurate description.

***
“No, no—I quite see that,” assented Roland. Dermot glanced up at him quickly, wondering whether, after all, he knew a little more than he had appeared to do. Luckily, Roland was trying, at the moment, to look intelligent, so Dermot was reassured.

***
“Why, if they know you want to buy you’ve as much chance of getting away from them without the paper as—as—well, I can’t think of anything that has such a poor chance of anything.”
***

[plus two illustrations/captions attached, from PGW stories in periodicals]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #seal
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June 24, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
Three decades before the drive-thru wedding chapel in Las Vegas, we see the phenomenon in Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #wedding #1920s #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile #drive-thru
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Old News (permalink)
"Helicopter looks at a goddess."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1961.
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#goddess #vintage headline #headline #helicopter
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #standup comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I seek to take by surprise."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #listening #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Many of us have been there, slumped in an armchair, the Ouija board on our lap upside down, our fingers tracing meaningless patterns over its surface ... our heads inclined at an odd angle, our eyes vacant, singing a little tune."  From Effigies by William K.
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#divination #occult #ouija
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #wheel of life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you run errands of error?  ... He looked for short cuts."  From The Instructor, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #vintage headline #vintage man #man #headline #frederick w. taylor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #full moon #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #hermit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Now? (1987).
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#vintage illustration #map #1980s #quicksand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #man in the moon #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #message in a bottle #bottle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College'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 #illustration #lesbian #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #blue jay
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to overlay an image from within the yearbook. From DeKalb Area Technical School's 1972 yearbook.

From DeKalb Area Technical School's 1972 yearbook
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #cannon
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Old News (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1969.
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#satan #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #death #angel #doctor #vintage yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Did I say something wrong?"  From Dark Shadows episode 670.
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#occult #star #pentagram #dark shadows
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June 23, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to silent / headphone parties.  From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #radio #illustration #headphones
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Old News (permalink)
"Where there's a wheel there's a way."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1952.
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#vintage headline #wheel #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #nursery rhyme
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #kite
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State University of New York's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egypt #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Nude women in the woods and brooks.  Look out this summer or you may stumble on an artist and his model most anywhere."  From The [New York] Journal, 1896.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #aesop #stork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #candle #1900s #hat #matches #matchbox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rush Medical College's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egypt #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #vintage diagram #pyramid #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #vintage yearbook #yearbook #diagram
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Old News (permalink)
"Dodges rats and is killed."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#rat #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"'Possum' spells a new life for the disabled."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.  
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sphinx with [headless] cat."  From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #sphinx #statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 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 #falling #1890s #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Keeping Up Appearances, by Rose Macaulay:


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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"In contemplative mood."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1942.
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#cat #vintage photo #1940s #photo
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June 22, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
A century before the annoying airbnb signs saying "Relax" and the like, there were those annoying signs.  From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Acclaimed by the producer of Missing Persons' original song, it's our vampiric "Dreaming in the Hallows."
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#sleepwalking #vampire #sleepwalker #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 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 #king #scotland #1900s #illustration #robert bruce
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Old News (permalink)
"Get thee behind me Satan—and push."  From The Aberree, 1960.
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#satan #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #dog #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #smile #hippo #photographer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Who lived in the skull?"  From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome, 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 #skull #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #giant #money #fairy tale #treasure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hare #the end #turtle #tortoise and the hare
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Using Our Language, Grade VIII by T. I. Davis, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #bear #grammar #pet walker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dentist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Old News (permalink)
"I wanted to run up the hillside screaming, 'why, why, why?'"  From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#vintage headline #why #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #tree spirit #faces in things #enchanted tree
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Dreaming of smokestacks at the top of the world.  From Tri-State College's 1930 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #earth #dream #vintage yearbook #1930s #pollution
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Migraine Auras: When the Visual World Fails by Richard Grossinger, 2006.
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#migraine #headache
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #dog
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Old News (permalink)
"Two get cash."  From Broome Community College's 1986 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A webbed glove for swimming."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #glove #hand #swimming #illustration #webbed
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June 21, 2024

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)
"The Bad Girl in the Pansy Bed."  "And then one day!  (Heavens, what a day for me!)"  From Laughing Horse, 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 #1920s #flowers #pansy #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #dog #maze #illustration #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #native america
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A 1943 postcard, via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage postcard #loose lips #warning #keep mum #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College'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
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Old News (permalink)
"Activity vs. talk-tivity."  From The Instructor, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline #act don't talk #action
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #1930s #paddle
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Old News (permalink)
From How Did It Begin? by R. Brasch, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
His eyes follow you, whether you're to his left or right.  A spirit medium's portrait of Grand Master Hiram Abiff.  From Gallery of Spirit Art, Aug. 1882.
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#vintage illustration #beard #spiritualism #masonic #freemasonry #masonry #hiram abiff
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Delight, by J. B. Priestley:

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I was taken aback, and may be said to have stayed aback ever since.

***
Tomorrow, ten times the size of last Tuesday, is suddenly rich with promise.

***
[New York City is] a comic strip painted on vellum and bound in gold.

***
[The routine of preliminary play rehearsals] for the author is rather like conducting a party of tourists across fields of glue.

***
[The secret of the stereoscope] is that having attained at last the third dimension, it begins to remind us of the fourth dimension, that of Time.

***
[A dream is] a bonus after dark, another slice of life cut differently....Only a dream! Why only?

***
There is to me a curious pleasure...in coming upon a real street scene that looks like a good stage set. [I am totally with him on this!]

***
[The sound of an orchestra tuning up is] a chaos...but it is a chaos caught at the supreme moment, immediately before Creation. Everything of order and beauty shortly to be revealed is already there in it. Moreover, it never fails us, unlike some of the compositions that will follow it.

***
I must admit that with me the delight comes from receiving the free pass and not from actually making use of it....Ironically enough, once I have been given a free pass I rarely find any opportunity to use it.

***
[His younger self's journal notes] are portentous, each note weighing at least fifty-six pounds.

***
This kind of morning…. has a unique trick of lifting me out of time; I seem to be moving along a fifth dimension and to have a four-dimensional outlook. Or put it more sensibly like this. These mornings link up directly and vividly with similar mornings in my past, so that I am aware of myself as I was then.
***

[More snippets attached.]

[Bonus: A (presumably) nonexistent dull book called Life and Times of Lord Dreary. N.B. When transcribing that title just now, I initially left out "and Times." I'm glad I caught the error, because I genuinely feel the complete title is so much better than my inadvertently abridged version. The boring lord's life and times! (my emphasis).]

[Also: One of Priestley's little essays is a tribute to the everything-intentionally-goes-wrong act of Frank Van Hoven. I wasn't aware of this precursor to Tommy Cooper et al., but I assume you know all about him. The Internet tells me, correctly or otherwise, that FVH's slogan was "The Man Who Made Ice Famous." Priestley refers to a genre of FVH trick "as labyrinthine and regressive as a Kafka novel, a trick never to be completed in this world," and describes Van Hoven's unsuccessful struggle with all those uncooperative "things."]





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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #cowboy
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Old News (permalink)
"Woe unto you ... hypocrites."  From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#hypocrisy #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The imp of three o'clock.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 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 #imp #anthropomorphism #clock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Richmond Professional Institute's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #wigwam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fish versus bird: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #fountain #fish #animal fight
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Precursors (permalink)
"Waiting for cars often precedes a cough."  From Collier's, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illness #cough #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1933 Southwestern yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Maybe it will miss us altogether or perhaps it is coming yet.  Some others think we are in it already, but admit doubts."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Workbook to Accompany Enchanting Stories by Gertrude Hildreth, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1940s #birthday cake #illustration #cake #birthday
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Our Fourfooted Friends and How We Treat Them, 1914.
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#cat #vintage photo #1910s #photo
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June 20, 2024

This May Surprise You (permalink)
We fact-checked this.  "All men's clothing look[s] alike."  From Dark Shadows episode 1215.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #men's clothing #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Pinocchio by Emily Gray, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #circus #donkey #pinocchio #illustration #living toy #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Barnes' Language Lessons or Short Studies in English, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #illustration #1880s
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Old News (permalink)
Finally!  "Good news for mice and canaries."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#mouse #vintage headline #headline #canary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Snaps magazine, 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 #there's a lot to unpack here
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #animals #duck #fish #predator #water rat #pike
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #audience #actor #tragedians
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rush Medical College's 1895 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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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Oh, I'm not amused.  I'm baffled."  From I Dream of Jeannie, season one, episode 16.
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#i dream of jeannie #baffled #not amused
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drunk #lamp post #hallucination #melting architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Holtzman Inkblot Technique by Evelyn Hill, 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#inkblot #1970s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Arkansas Polytechnic College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #occult #fortune teller #clairvoyant #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #native american #totem pole
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's horse-headed graduate is from the University of Western Ontario'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 #hybrid #animal-headed #horse-headed
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Old News (permalink)
"The seers disagree on next president: Richard M. Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Some Other Tragedy."  From The Aberree, 1960.
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#politics #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
No goat hooves?  From Swarthmore College's 1900 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faun #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #leopard #pet walker
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1922 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Japan, Home of the Sun by Dearmin & Peck and illustrated by Kikuko Mori, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #horse #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1921.
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#cat #vintage photo #1920s #photo
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June 19, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #sand castle #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stage Costuming by Agnes Brooks Young, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #christian
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Cats are not peas, as we learn in Cats Are Not Peas by Laura Gould.
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#cat #peas
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drama #comedy and tragedy
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We spotted this temporal anomaly in East Tennessee State University's 1989 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Oxen dance.  From Folk Dances of Scandinavia by Anne Schley Duggan.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dancing #men dancing #scandinavian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Michigan University's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #circles
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Old News (permalink)
"How you met your progenitors?"  From The Instructor, 1960.  See the remarkable Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.
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#vintage illustration #graveyard #vintage headline #headline #ancestor #progenitor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #cat people #musical animal #cello #cat headed #illustration #bobcat
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Old News (permalink)
"Has not abolished the drink evil."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Juniata College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).  From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #dr. strangelove #bomb #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gunpoint #tagged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The blaze that lit the way to our downfall."  From Santa Clara's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blaze
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A weather balloon?"  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cheerful Day by Nan Fairbrother, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ornate frame #cheerful
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 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 #giant #fairy tale #illustration #jack and the beanstalk
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June 18, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #lantern
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fisher Junior's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Old News (permalink)
From Suddenly They Heard Footsteps by Dan Yashinsky, 2004. 
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#vintage headline #headline #footsteps
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the apparently rare Southern Ghosts by Nancy Roberts.
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#ghost #vintage photo #night photography
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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 #native american
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Old News (permalink)
"We are going to be what we live like."  From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #up a tree #hollow tree
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Old News (permalink)
"Pursued by cannibals."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage headline #cannibal #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sandman's Might-Be-So Stories by Abbie Phillips Walker and illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase, 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 #owl #animals #crow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The newborn spirit is taught lessons of love and mercy."  From Drawings Descriptive of Spirit Life and Progress, 1874.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #spirit #spiriutualism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Where on earth did you come from, and how do you happen to be alive?"  From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #pumpkinhead #oz
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)

We tracked down a temporal anomaly to this clock with no hands in Cookeville, Tennessee.  "It's very difficult to tell the time by it, especially if ... you're short-sighted and won't wear your glasses" (Hazel Holt, Lilies that Fester).

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#temporal anomaly
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From But Is It Art? by Percy Hammond:

[The comedy expert being quoted is Eddie Cantor.]


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#golf
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Old News (permalink)
"Thousands of hidden eggs."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#insect #bug #egg #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Optimistic jazz."  From State Teacher's College, Farmville's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #jazz #one-man band
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Down Our Street by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #1940s #illustration #pet walker #dignity #dignified
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #knight #lantern #shadow #illustration #1910s
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June 17, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1910s #imaginary animal #snod
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sea-side and Way-side by Julia McNair Wright and illustrated by C. S. King, 1936.

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#vintage illustration #dragonfly #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From The Discontented Ghost by Scott Corbett, 1978.  See this great library card pocket from the book.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A trinity."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#religion #vintage illustration #grotesque #three faces #trinity #church art #three in one
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #witch #burned alive #burned at the stake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"That's the one redeeming feature about the obvious: you can always depend on it."  From Dark Shadows episode 119.
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#dark shadows #obvious
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #cockatrice #1924
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1904 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 #moon phases
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
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#sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #pyramid #computer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #double bass
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photo-Era Magazine, 1910.
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#cat #vintage photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #devil #graveyard #fairy tale #illustration
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June 16, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird #rhino #1890s #illustration #rhinoceros
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Old News (permalink)
"The moon on a tear.  Lunar halo is witnessed in the heavens."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#moon #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #deer #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Teachers College, Memphis yearbook of 1931.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"I have been a 'ghost.'"  From The Satan Trap by Martin Ebon.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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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 #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #smile #vegetable people #pea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Laughing to see him blunder by!"  From Chatterbox, 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 #fox #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Wesleyan's 1937 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "This Was Your Life" (1972) by J. T. C.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #grim reaper #scythe #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #crystal ball #eye #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #typewriter #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
"She heeded other people till she found her own ways were best."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy queen
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From My Life and Times, by Jerome K. Jerome:

***
He was a small man with a magnificent head. It was said of him that no one could be as clever as he looked.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #ship #arctic
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1949.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Kabbalistic star of bestiality is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #goat #inverted pentagram #illustration #kabbalistic #bestiality
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June 15, 2024

Old News (permalink)
"Dreamed of the 'happy turning.'"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1946.
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#dream #vintage headline #headline
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
Today's ghost ship is from Chatterbox, 1892. 
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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 #ghost ship #spectre ship
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mortarboard
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 1920.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairy #dreams
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #dog #guitar #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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#vintage illustration #greek #city-state
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rutherford's 1930 yearbook.  (Our own restoration, as per usual.)

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
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#vintage illustration #fox #folk tale
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Sundials (permalink)
From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1978 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #war zone #bombing #melting architecture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #night sky #cloud
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts' 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Times which are too full."  From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#vintage headline #fullness of time #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #cat #snake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan University of West Virginia's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #frog #door
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greenbrier Military School's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wheat #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What's for breakfast?  "Grains of wheat and rice shot from guns."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #gun #1930s #illustration #ad #cereal
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June 14, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1959.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #triangle #geometry #illustration #1950s #ad #nerd
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #stacked animals #bremen town musicians #1910s
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Thanks to Patronus Records for saying, "First off, that music video really encapsulates the essence of the production so very well and really adds greatly to the overall listening experience!! Amazing work in how you guys put this together. A totally dream-like and mysterious sound in the execution of the piece."
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#occult #spiritualism #seance #ouija #music video #video #neons gone mad #sigfus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #tornado #oz #1890s #cyclone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1890s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ellis Stanyon's Magic, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #hands #ballerina
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #elephant #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #turtle #binoculars
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Old News (permalink)
"The years that the locust hath eaten."  From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#vintage headline #locust #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medical school
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1965.
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#1960s #body painting #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Capital University's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #queen #veiled #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #beard #silhouette #barber
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #clubs
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you never dream of macaroni!  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #symbolism #macaroni
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Husbands of Edith, by George Barr McCutcheon:

[Fun fact: The phrase "by George" occurs twice in this text: once on the title page, as shown above, and once in the usual way, i.e., as a British expletive. One illustration/caption attached.]
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pluck and Luck Complete Stories of Adventure, 1902.

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#vintage illustration #flying machine #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School (Farmville)'s 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #nest #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #illustration #glee club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The vibrator of death."  From Amazing Stories Quarterly, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #horror #illustration #amusement park #vibrator #theme park
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #garden #sunken garden
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June 13, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Highroads to Reading 1 by Sheffield, Roy, Roy & Bollert, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #fox #1930s #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #cat #doughnut #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wild dog #illustration #hyena-dog
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1953.
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#vintage ad #dummy #mannequin #1950s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smart animal
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Old News (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1967.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Arkansas Polytechnic College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #math
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #dog #drenched
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #moon #man in the moon #crescent moon #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #japan #bridge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Ole Miss yearbook of 1919.

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#vintage illustration #incense #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #yarn ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #creature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #incantation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage diagram #vintage yearbook #yearbook #diagram #decision making
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #horse costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Onondagan.  From Syracuse University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #frog #toad #musical animal #1940s #illustration
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June 12, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If MTV would show videos like this, they would still be a cultural force." —Taskboy, re: Grave Mood Rings' "The Ghost Rejoins the Living"
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#vampire #glow in the dark #grave mood rings #blacklight #black light
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But Robin kept fanning the flame with his wing."  From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #fire #native american #1920s #robin #illustration
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Something, Defined (permalink)
"Much ado about something that is really nothing."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage headline #something #nothing #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fishing #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book II, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #frog prince #princess #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Professor Mud-turtle's safe and select swimming pool."  From "Lelia and Lulia Lobster" by Joshua F. Crowell, in The Children's Book, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #turtle #swimming #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Canada has tradition of loneliness."  From The Gateway, 1967.
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#loneliness #canada #vintage headline #headline
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The Right Word (permalink)
"He cried so loud that all the hollow deep of fell resounded."  From The Essentials of the English Sentence by Elias H. MacEwan, 1900.
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#hell #sentence diagram #crying
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #angel #serpent #cherub #cupid #snake #skulls #god #constrictor #peace angel #swan costume #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1964 yearbook.

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#mask #umbrella #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #mascot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Re-incarnation of beauty."  From Motion Picture Classic, 1920.
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#mummy #sarcophagus #vintage illustration #vintage ad #egypt #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pie eating contest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Iowa's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #cathedral #france #notre dame
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's horse galloping through cacti is from Presbyterian College's 1924 yearbook.  (Our restoration.)  See This Book is a Cactus.
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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cactus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Secret of the Zodiac by Julian Sterne, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #zodiac #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Did you know that when we passed your smile was pasted on crooked?"  From Eastern Mennonite College's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #smile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1976 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #caged animal #smiling cat #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fatigue #tired #1940s #ad
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June 11, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #pinocchio #video #penetralia #standup comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do black cats bake cakes on plates?"  From By Myself, Teachers' Manual, 1963.
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#cat #yes or no
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories to Study, B 4, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #mice #1970s #illustration #country mouse #city mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #paddle #oar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1892 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cherub #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fish
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1967.
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#spider #vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Show me anyone today who gets this excited over leap year, and I'll be really surprised.  From Washington State's 1948 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #leap year #1940s #smiling men #happy people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Duck versus rat: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #duck #rat #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks' 1941 yearbook.

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#angel #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #halo #1940s #vintage man #smiling man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A flying basket from the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #weightless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Bookman, November 1927:

[writes Valentine Williams]
I don't know whether novelists have a private patron saint--so many of us do our own patronising, don't we?

[writes former Bookman editor John Farrar; I guess "Chipman" is a pseudonym for Bookman's "chip off the old block"]
Chipman's favorite poem at six months' age is Shelley's "The Cloud." He jumps and dances and gurgles with delight when that is recited to him. I suppose it is only fair to add that he jumps and dances and gurgles with delight when it isn't, also.

[Bonus: "Meanwhiling" as a present participle, e.g., "They are merely meanwhiling as reporters." I think I've seen this usage twice in The Bookman, and online research (including M-W and OED) suggests that it has had no other existence than the Bookman's whimsy.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Secret Service, Old and Young King Brady, Detectives, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #grandfather clock #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Lethargy is apparently contagious.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Fake news: "No better fun than work."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
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June 10, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1961.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This business means nothing to me."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #mouth #illustration #making faces
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I like my surprises in books, not life."  From Dark Shadows episode 357.
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#surprise #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #timepiece #clock #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baseball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hidden Witchery by Nigel Tourneur and decorated by Will Mein, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #sunrise #lake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford College's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #jesus #wanted poster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Keep-Well Stories For Little Folks by May Farinholt Jones, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #lion #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #staring daggers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #dinner party #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The first step toward being a walking encyclopedia: a walking dictionary.  From Arkansas Polytechnic College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #faces in things #dictionary #1920s #walking dictionary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross, 1868.
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#vintage illustration #witch #cat #artist #cat witch
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The Right Word (permalink)
"He's at a loss for words."  From The Film Daily, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #speech balloon #wordless #speech bubble #loss for words #speechless #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"What th' 'L.'"  From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #letter l
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The swaying of the astral body."  From The Projection of the Astral Body by Sylvan J. Muldoon and Hereward Carrington, 1929.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #ferris wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I wonder what ther doin' at home?"  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #homesick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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June 9, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You remember that scene in 'The Human Scorpion'?"  From The Strand, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Is she playing patty-cake, dive balmy, or collar-bone conscious?  From The Ladies' Home Journal, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #diving #exercise #1940s #illustration #ad #collar-bone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Can you do 2 good turns at once?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State College's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fable #fish
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Story Carnival by DeLancey and Iverson.
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#vintage illustration #cat #goat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 1896.
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#fairy #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #sword #vintage yearbook #1940s #impaled
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #war and peace
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dog sled
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #ship #pirate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Bay Teachers' College's 1971 yearbook.

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#death #grim reaper #science #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gas mask
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Old News (permalink)
"'Swinging Swami' doesn't feel pain."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.  
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#religion #vintage headline #swami #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bald
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #falling #horse
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #dog #fishing #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #scarecerow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #1970s #illustration #growth
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Murder Wheel, by Tom Mead:

Draven was portly with protuberant incisors and a nonexistent dash of moustache.
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#moustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #nursery rhyme
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June 8, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #horns #1900s #illustration #horned woman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Arthur has plenty of crackers and sheese [sic] now."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #cheese
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic Magazine, 1954.  
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#vintage illustration #occult #1950s #voodoo doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Joplin Junior College's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #outer space #vintage yearbook #yearbook #atomic #antenna
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dressed to match the player piano, and it's likely her entire home is plastered with stars.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #piano #stars #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hanover's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Serapina by Anne White and illustrated by Tony Palazzo.
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#vintage illustration #cat #parrot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #swing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Stone eggs never hatch — stone hearts never open."  From State University of New York College at Oneonta's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #heart #graffiti #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lucian's Wonderland by St. J. Basil Wynne Willson and illustrated by A. Payne Garnett, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #egg #giant egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull face #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
A rainbow-colored sun-centered halo with white offset haloes.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage diagram #rainbow #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Washington University's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #exhausted #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1825.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #flower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #women #vintage women
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Abeniki Caldwell by Carolyn Wells, 1902.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#falling #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #violin #musician #illustration #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if steeplejacks have good prospects."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#vintage headline #headline
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June 7, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #1930s #illustration #poem
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #ship #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 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 #wig #before and after #hairpiece
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#sleep #poem #philip sidney
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Speak Daggers To Her by Rosemary Edghill, 1995.
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#sword #tarot #dagger #ten of swords #10 of swords
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Old News (permalink)
"That ye may be able to withstand in the evil day."  From The Improvement Era, 1966.
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#evil #vintage headline #headline #hang in there
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Woroni, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #no
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Getting on is largely a matter of getting up each time you are knocked down."  From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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#advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 120.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bull #cowboy #bull fighter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The House With the Silver Door by Eva March Tappan, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #snail #spider web #caught in a web
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Old News (permalink)
"Chronic vigour."  From St. Louis University's 1937 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #dog #toto #oz #1890s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #killer whale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #cougar #puma
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks' 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photographer
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Unicorns (permalink)
"A blast came from the trumpet of the god-like man."  From Fantastic Adventures, 1943.  See A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #horn #deity #godlike #flying unicorn #god-man
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Iole, by Robert W. Chambers:

***
“He calls it the house beautiful, you know.”
“Why not the beautiful house?” asked Wayne, still more coldly.
“Oh, he gets everything upside down.”

***
A thrill passed completely through Wayne, and probably came out on the other side.

***
“And, as it is the little things that are the most precious, so nothing, which is less than the very least, is precious beyond price.”

***
“Art is an art.” With which epigram he slowly closed his eyes....“Art,” continued the poet, opening his heavy lids with a large, sweet smile, “Art is above Art, but Art is never below Art. Art, to be Art, must be artless. That is a very precious thought—very, very precious. Thank you for understanding me—thank you.”

***
“You ask me what is Art. I will tell you; it is this!” And the poet, inverting his thumb, pressed it into the air. Then, carefully inspecting the dent he had made in the atmosphere, he erased it with a gesture and folded his arms.

***
A mechanical smile struggled to break out, but it was not the smile, any more than glucose is sugar.

***
A wan young man whose face figured only as a by-product of his hair whispered “Hush!”

***
“Verse is a necklace of tinted sounds strung idly, yet lovingly, upon stray tinseled threads of thought.”

***
“Let me cite, as an example, those beautiful verses of Henry Haynes,” he replied gravely.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

I’d rather be a Could Be,
If I can not be an Are;
For a Could Be is a May Be,
With a chance of touching par.

I had rather be a Has Been
Than a Might Have Been, by far;
For a Might Be is a Hasn’t Been
But a Has was once an Are!

Also an Are is Is and Am;
A Was was all of these;
So I’d rather be a Has Been
Than a Hasn’t, if you please.

[I suspect Chambers made that poem--and its purported author--up; the only famous Henry Haynes I find is an entertainer who came later. Bernard Shaw in this book is represented by an offstage playwright* called Barnard Haw, so maybe "Henry Haynes" is a spoof on Heinrich Heine or someone? I also learned that this verse is widely misattributed to Milton Berle (who was born several years after this book was published). Though that may have happened in the usual way, I suppose in this case Berle himself might be to blame, as he was notorious for appropriating material.]
[*Well, of course the playwright usually remains offstage, but this one is doubly offstage.]
***

[Bonus: This is another book that includes Wodehousian bickering-telegram business. Iole was published in 1905, when I believe PGW was literarily still in short pants, that is to say mostly writing school stories--so I bet Chambers anticipated him.]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #yarn #living toy #yarn doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #hat #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sea-side and Way-side by Julia McNair Wright and illustrated by C. S. King, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #ant
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June 6, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She came home with a large pot of grease."  From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 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 #fable #anthropomorphism #cat #mouse #cat and mouse #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 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 #falling #donkey #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Old News (permalink)
"Why it is better to make your Christmas puddings now."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.
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#vintage christmas #christmas #vintage headline #christmas pudding #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #owl #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Tag yourself:
• assassin of joy
• dinner depresser
• bane or blight at supper
• conversational half portion
• intellectual side dish
From Vanity Fair, 1916.  (Hat tip - the winsome Jonathan.)
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #angel #mormonism #prophet #moroni #joseph smith
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A Breton bed.  The sleeping place in the living room.  A moveable article and a most excellent example."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1920 yearbook.

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#mummy #sarcophagus #vintage illustration #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Central Missouri State University'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 #donkey #bee #animal fight #summer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Crystal Locket by Nellie M. Rowe and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Your future!!"  From the University of Alberta's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #heraldry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Arkansas Polytechnic College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #geometry #big book #crushing #math
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Old News (permalink)
"'It' needs taking care of."  From The Gateway, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1931 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #venice #gondola
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.
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#writing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #telephone pole #illustration #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spiritualism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Conquerors Bible College's 1975 yearbook.

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#mummy #vintage yearbook #shrouded #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1940s #advice #illustration #elbow
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June 5, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Twelve years before the invention of Mr. Potato Head, it was believed that potatoes couldn't play with you.  Today, we know that potatoes can in fact play.  From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany Fun with Dick and Jane, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #potato #mr. potato head #1940s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Cows have ears for news."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1946.
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#cow #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #anthropomorphism #rabbit #donkey #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brownie and His Friends by Gates & Karabin, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #underwater #vintage book #book #fish #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bishop #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #map #faces in things #1890s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #egypt #1930s #makeup #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 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 #fairy tale #wolf #little red riding hood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost as homecoming queen.  From Ball State University's 1958 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #1950s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
88053 87108
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#vintage illustration #question mark
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia College's 1916 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower
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Old News (permalink)
From Help from Beyond by Henry L. Stern, 1974.
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#vintage headline #headline #help wanted
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"A tadpole on my toothbrush."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#frog #vintage headline #tadpole #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you were thinking of the 9 of Clubs, the Aquinas College 1966 yearbook predicted correctly!

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

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#playing card #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Human Culture, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #wasp #hornet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #spilled ink #yearbook #journalism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
His stepmother fell as a bundle of sticks.  From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #falling #strawman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Sacred Heart College's 1970 yearbook.

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bonfire #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Father Bunny and His Birds by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Penny Ross, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bird
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June 4, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#nobody #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Old News (permalink)
"Island that blew its head off."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #vocano #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hobo #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.

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#vintage illustration #fox #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greetings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Waving to the creatures from a flying basket.  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#weightless #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #duck #stagecoach
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #broom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1932 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #magician #magic #1960s #instant gratification #instantaneous
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Old News (permalink)
"Many are in dire need of a star to steer by."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Entrance to the Well of Truth.  From Mysteria, 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 #egypt #initiation #well
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An entire page dedicated to a question mark.  From Earlham College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #king #oz #tied up
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, January 1917:



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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hunger #winter #starvation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Those naughty seven."  From Oberlin College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #duck #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #railroad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #automaton #mechanical man #robot #illustration #mechanical horse #steam engine #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat #illustration
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June 3, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
Before Wendy Carlos' synthesizer album Switched-On Bach (1968) and the disco of Hooked on Classics (1981), there was Jean Casadesus' versatility with boogie and Bach.  From The Current Sauce, 1950.
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#vintage headline #musician #headline #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A horse named Antedilivian Dragon.  From "Don't Give Your Animals a Name" in The Ladies' Home Journal, 1945.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #1940s #illustration #animal names
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Old News (permalink)
"Let mirth go on, let pleasure know no pause."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#pleasure #happiness #vintage headline #advice #mirth #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #illustration #living toy #toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photographer #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #good intentions
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #candle #ywca
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #sleepwalker #somnambulist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#hybrid #human headed #fox man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #debating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cats used to create battery power.  From Life magazine, 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 #cat #electricity #battery
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"Where did the time go?"  From Assumption College's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #clock #mustache #1970s #vintage men #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#tiger #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
(Our restoration, as per usual.)  From the College of William and Mary's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #magnifying glass #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Josephine Dunn rides a turkey.  From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#turkey #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1901 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A leaf costume of Torres Strait.  From Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 1923. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From String Puller Philosophy by Peter Schumann, 2009.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1926 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The big-eared rat of Boston."  From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #boston #rat
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June 2, 2024

Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Q: "How does air act?"
A: Unconscionably. 
From Modern Science in Our Environment by Dull & Mann, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #tornado #windmill #1940s #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"The great march to death.  Lemmings on the move again.  A tragic exodus that sets us all thinking."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#vintage headline #headline #lemming
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#reflection #vintage yearbook #shadow self
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #darkness #personification #night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #recliner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 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 #flower #water lily
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1919 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera #photographer #vintage man #man #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Belmont Abbey's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#black cat #cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bookshelf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #magic mirror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1914 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #grim reaper #occult #prophecy #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"You may find it hard to believe that there was once a time when there were no suspenders."
Droodles by Roger Price
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#suspenders
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Old News (permalink)
"Will it be this next?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #1960s #vintage headline #woman #vintage woman #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy
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Old News (permalink)
"Universe is likened to dying old man as 'cosmic night' nears."  From The Aberree, 1962.  
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#end of the world #universe #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 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 #inkblot #1900s #siamese twins
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Old News (permalink)
"Like an octopus of ice.  Mount Rainier's tentacles spread out over 100 square miles—while glaciers creep down its slopes, internal fires send forth steam and flowers crowd its base."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#ice #octopus #mountain #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 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 #coffin #1890s #illustration #cupboard #shelves
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June 1, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #dwarf #illustration #hollow tree #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #chair #illustration #furniture #1950s #ad #upholstery #slipcover
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Old News (permalink)
"Who knew this much went on?"  From The Omen, 1996.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #lion #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
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#frost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bad news for those under the assumption that fresh air is enough.  Fresh air is not, in fact, enough.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #wind #vintage headline #illustration #headline #ad
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Always Remember (permalink)
One thing to remember:
  • you must leave the ball by midnight, because then the magic will end, and your clothes will be rags again
  • words that sound like fox don't have to be spelled like fox
  • you cannot draw something if you do not know what it looks like
  • not only have you changed, but so have the people you are returning to
  • a compass does not really point to true north, except by coincidence in some areas
  • we all have the same instrument, whether some of us have shaped it into the body of a dancer or not
  • you are not alone in this
  • the Great Wall was constructed over a period of thousands of years
  • always discriminate between fish
  • when drawing a clown, everything gets exaggerated -- that is, big nose, big mouth, weird hair, and huge shoes (usually with toes sticking out)
  • glue makes wood swell
  • things do go through fads, so it can be hard to say what new ideas will stick and which will be discarded as a passing fashion
  • proceed one thing at a time!
  • any "off" odor generally means "off" flavor as well
  • learn to yelp and cluck
  • we may have misunderstood the purport of a doctrine which repels us
  • pressed flowers must be collected when in plentiful supply and dried well before you will need them
  • political cartooning is a negative art
  • the body was made to be used and not to stand idle
  • floods are not abnormal happenings but a regular part of the way nature works
  • all the problems you left behind have not magically disappeared
  • no one is going to treat your possessions with the same tender, loving care that you would yourself
  • ideas can be successfully studied only in the concrete
  • all nappy hair is not bad, and all bad hair is not nappy
  • there is often more than one way of working out a given problem
  • a bee’s wings are held at shoulder height
  • there's a limit to the amount of double duty a plot of ground can do
  • you cannot delete your termination entry
(Snippets gathered through the course of our research.  See Bullet Lists.)
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#bullet list
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #calendar #june
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Old News (permalink)
At first glance, we thought that was William Burroughs standing near the spooky lights.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1990.
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#eerie #spooky #night photography #vintage headline #headline #strange lights
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#owl #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1939 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #trash can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children of Mu by James Churchward, 1931. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #symbolism #mexican
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Stories My Children Love Best of All by Edgar Dubs Shimer and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #apple tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.)'s 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #kissing #june #lesbian
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #feathers #1790s #hat
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #native american #apache
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Feels like this yearbook is trying to psychoanalyze its reader.  From Beaver College's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #constellation #night sky #starry night #centaur #biblical #two faced
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton College's 1878 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rude awakening #drenched
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Old News (permalink)
"Henchmen of Hitler are now big tycoons."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.
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#vintage headline
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