CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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July 31, 2021

Old News (permalink)
You've heard of "retail therapy," but did you know that it originated with the superintendent of a St. Louis insane asylum in 1907?  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#insanity #vintage headline #capitalism #headline #shopping #retail therapy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling when you post your own "Lost" notice.  "Lost -- 1 bear.  Answers to the name of 'Teddy.'"  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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Old News (permalink)
One must investigate one's options.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1994.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 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 #vampire #vintage magazine #magazine
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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Old News (permalink)
Dinosaurs want war!  From Toike Oike, 1962.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Our cat does this.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Le Charivari, 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 #self defense #kick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Third Reader by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1914.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #section mark
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's yearbook of 1911.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #faces #audience
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #donkey
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #political cartoon #peace angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1900 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angels #heaven #vision #biblical
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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 yearbook #yearbook #night
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Old News (permalink)
"Have you seen the light?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The serpent."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 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 #grotesque #church art
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July 30, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"Many will be disappointed."  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #disappointment #disappointed #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mother Earth crushed by the weight of peace contracts.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #earth #anthropomorphism #mother earth #crushed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How Mrs. Mouse fooled kitty.  From Sandman Twilight Stories by Abbie Phillips Walker and illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase, 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 #mask #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Iowa's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #doctor death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #totem pole #south seas
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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 #science fiction #space travel #moon #infinity #rocket
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #eagle #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #giant eagle
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #serpent #snake #knife
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Very accurate -- science is always mostly shrouded in darkness.  From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#science #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Talking with the raven.  From Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times by Frances Browne and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 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 #talking bird #raven
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Elmhurst's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 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 #haunted #ghost
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Finishing Touches by Jean Kerr:
Elsie:
I had four years of Latin in high school and I can't even read sundials!
***
Katy:
Why in heaven's name would you have her bring me a book in Latin?

Fred:
I wanted you to have a sense of upmanship.
***
[From one of the seduction scenes...]

Felicia:
Okay, come right this minute, just as you are. If you look back, you turn into a pillar of something.

Jeff:
A pillar of the community, maybe.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #playing cards #postage stamp
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The lost adventure of Smiling Pillow, Esperanto Kitty, and the Magic Carpet.
Thanks to Pilfering Apples, who said: "What's this? My favorite adventurers not only return, but release an instant classic single record? A song that summoned my own adventuresome obsidian feline to dance? A joy! (and a spell to circle the brain!) ... With all sincerity, thank you ... for the update on our bold aerial adventurers, and for the doorway between Waking and Lucid Waking that is Penetralia!"
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#ken clinger #prof. oddfellow #smiling pillow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May firedrakers in your vicinity smolder elsewhere.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Health care wolves ... nothing at all like today, with doctors being the third leading cause of death.  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #doctor #health care
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July 29, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #mountain spirit
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Old News (permalink)
We once admitted that we get all our news from a 1941 edition of New England Goat News.  It's not so unusual -- you've seen the Addams Family's Uncle Fester get all his news from last year's newspaper.  And you've seen Gilligan's Island's Thurston Howell III repeatedly read the same stock market report in the only newspaper available after the shipwreck.  Here's a precursor to all that, in which four fishermen in 1902 get all their news from an 1879 edition of the New York Ledger that they purchased from a Norwegian farmhouse.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#fishing #fisherman #vintage headline #headline #old news #same old thing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1981.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bigfoot
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Ethos, 1952.
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#automaton #robot #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Gracefully he floated over their heads.  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 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 #levitation #weightless #floating #the people could fly
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Something, Defined (permalink)
From A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty by Frank Kuppner, 1984.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Playing a scherzo.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #piano #pianist
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Milikin's 1929 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #game board #chess #illustration #athletics
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #political cartoon #death #skeleton #money bag #war dead #illustration #war profiteering #art #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Aquarius.  From Colorado College's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #astrology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #aquarius
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #clown #costume party #illustration #costumes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From American University's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lobster #pincers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I don't feel that the public has any right to my private life."  From Toike Oike, 1971.
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#privacy #paper bag head #bag over the head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1915 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant book #tiny man #giant goat #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Headless ghost walks the track."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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#ghost #headless #decapitated #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1978 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Dermot and the Thirsty Stones, written and illustrated by Richard Bennett.
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#vintage illustration #fox
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man by Lloyd Alexander.
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#cat
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July 28, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"Mosquitos annoying."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#mosquito #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#blustery day #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Crossing the danger line.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #canoe #danger line
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry 2 Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dragon #computer game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #king #goat #oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He who gets slapped."  From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#vintage ad #clown #slapped #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #gas mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #theatre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great Sea Horse by Isabel Anderson, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #seagull #waterskiing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #men in suits #franternity
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spooky #occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #seance #night photography #yearbook #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #strange toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caveman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #death #skulls #flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #rising sun #bridge #zeppelin #illustration #blimp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #eagle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bald eagle #1920s
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #axe #rabbit #bunny #knife
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

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All day long she had been sneaking a peak at the description of Illinois in her Travel Guide to Corn Country: “It is a flat state. It has a natural topographic monotony.”
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#illinois
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Old News (permalink)
"Have a good time!"  From Lighted Pathway, 1972.
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#vintage headline #advice #good times #headline
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July 27, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Absolutely Fabulous episode in which Eddie and Patsy go to France and accidentally stay in an outbuilding instead of the chateau.  From Chatterbox, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #window #face in the window
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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 #faces in things #yarn #yarn doll #yarn ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #harpy #hybrid #human headed #bird man #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"7 1/2 ft. 'something.'"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #monster #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#mummy #vintage illustration #bandages
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1909.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #wedding #vintage magazine #stabbing #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #deafness #league of nations #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rooftop #mice #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Burning all their rejected jokes.  From Swarthmore's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fire #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Old News (permalink)
"Scream in the dark."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1974 yearbook.
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#darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scream #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Costumed elves from Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #elves #illustration #long tail
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore 's 1884 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cycling #penny farthing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #devil #shadow #clown
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double #double vision
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Spotted in Wodehouse's Luck of the Bodkins:

1. A dining establishment called the Restless Cheese.

2. The assertion, by his cousin, that Monty Bodkin has no acting talent, couched in the observation that he "couldn't play the pin in Pinafore."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #goddess #jesus #mary
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1923 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Naked man in silk hat.  Will not submit an alternative."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#vintage headline #hat #headline
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July 26, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
There's such charm in ranting histories of priceless artifacts' serpentine travels around the world.  In these three favorite examples (two fictional and one historical), note the recurring themes of pirate admirals, islands, secret societies, emperors/pharaohs, Greek merchants, and mercenary collectors.
From John Huston's 1941 screenplay of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon:
[The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, later called the Knights of Rhodes] sent this foot-high jeweled bird to [Emperor] Charles, who was then in Spain.  They sent it in a galley commanded by a member of the Order.  It never reached Spain.  A famous admiral of buccaneers took the Knight's galley and the bird.  In 1713 it turned up in Sicily.  In 1940 it appeared in Paris.  It had, by that time, acquired a coat of black enamel so that it looked like nothing more than  a fairly interesting black statuette.  In that disguise, sir, it was, you might say, kicked around Paris for more than three score years by private owners too stupid to see what it was under the skin.  Then in 1923 a Greek dealer named Charilaos Konstantinides found it in an obscure shop.  No thickness of enamel could conceal the value from his eyes. ... To hold it safe while pursuing his researches into its history, Charilaos re-enameled the bird.  Despite that precaution, I got wind of his find.
This speech was homaged in Frank Henenlotter's screenplay of Brain Damage (1988):
For the Aylmer is a creature of endless histories.  A living relic of civilizations long since forgotten. ... The Aylmer's origins can be traced back to the Fourth Crusade where he was snatched from the Emperor Alexius during the sack of Byzantium in 1203.  It's believed a Venetian mercenary named Matteo Grimaldi brought the creature to Europe, but he had to surrender it almost immediately to a renegade cardinal, a Borgia who wanted the Aylmer all to himself.  In 1699, the Aylmer reappeared in the possession of one Don Manuel Perolta, a Spanish viceroy and freelance corsair.  He lost the Aylmer to a Portuguese admiral off the Barbary Coast who himself was murdered within days by a young midshipman who fled with his prize to Africa.  There the Aylmer quickly fell into the hands of a Mabootoo chief whose tribe placed a deep religious value in the Aylmer's many talents.  Then, during the Second World War, a German munitions tycoon bribed a battalion commander to obtain the Aylmer for himself.  It didn't work out that way.  The Aylmer was brought to Berlin all right, but he passed from host to host for over three decades until I tracked him down.  Until I paid for him in both money and blood.  Until I made him mine.
Both of these speeches are in the tradition of the story of the signet ring given by Pharaoh to the patriarch Joseph, as told in Charles Edwards' The History and Poetry of Finger-Rings (1894):
Upon opening, in the winter of 1824, a tomb in the necropolis of Sakkara near Memphis, Arab workmen discovered a mummy, every limb of which was cased in solid gold; each finger had its particular envelope, inscribed with hieroglyphics: "So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt."  A golden scarabaeus or beetle was attached to the neck by a chain of the same metal; a signet-ring was also found, a pair of golden bracelets and other relics of value.  The excavation had been made at the charge of the Swedish Consul; but the articles discovered became the prize of the laborers.  By a liberal application of the cudgel, the scarabaeus with its chain, a fragment of the gold envelope and the bracelets were recovered.  The bracelets are now in the Leyden Museum, and bear the same name as the ring.  This signet-ring, however, which was not given up at the time, found its way to Cairo and was there purchased by the Earl of Ashburnham.  That nobleman having put his collection of relics, with his baggage, on board a brig chartered in Alexandria for Smyrna, the vessel was plundered by Greek pirates, who sold their booty in the island of Syra.  The signet in question fell thus into the hands of a Greek merchant, who kept it till about three years ago, when it was sold in Constantinople and purchased and brought finally to England.  It is again in the possession of the Earl of Ashburnham. ... A discovery of the ring ... which Pharaoh gave to Joseph appears to border on the marvellous; and, yet, such things were and gentleness of climate may allow us to suppose that they still exist, while modern energy, science and learning are so laying bare the world's sepulchre of the past that we ought not to disbelieve at the suggested resurrection of any thing.
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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)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #death #aesop
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage headline #happy and sad #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #stone tablet #lycurgus
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"There are only 12 different types of faces in the world, yet we're constantly amazed at people who look alike."  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.
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#physiognomy #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fantastic Adventures, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #werewolf
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
What a great way to end a poem:
Then sit, Cat!
Like a plaster sister of the cat that
Owned the house
A million aeons of a sunslicked second
Before.
From Ethos, 1959.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #angel #good and evil #sword #ad
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Old News (permalink)
From God Uses Ink by John Hostetler, 1957. 
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#god #vintage headline #ink #headline #indelible
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Kentucky's marine monster."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1940.
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#poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Guignol, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dancing animals
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Kentucky's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees #perspective
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #long hair #braided hair #illustration #long braids #braids
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Leo's yearbook of 1972.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #skiing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Ole Miss yearbook of 1919.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #lion #assyrian
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July 25, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to Rosscoman for suggesting a slogan for Prof. Oddfellow's pagan standup comedy routines.  Instead of "The more you drink, the funnier I'll be," Rosscoman suggested, "The more you think, the funnier I'll be."  We incorporated the slogan into a poster, available here.
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#shadow #prof. oddfellow #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #monster #spider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Moloch from Fantastic Adventures, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #moloch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There's magic in the air!"  From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
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#vintage illustration #animals #magic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #cupid #chess
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Old News (permalink)
From There Is Nothing To Stick To by Dionysia Exarchopoulos.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weaver's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #armor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Bunny and Bear Book by Laura Rountree Smith, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #bear
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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 #gnome #elf #giant #jester #tears of a clown #mourning #sobbing #bucket of tears #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sochineniia N.G. Shebueva, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #giant #gulliver #tiny men #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#anthropomorphism #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Chapel Hill's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooster #beetle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #death #mirror #skull
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
That sinking feeling that no one alive is looking at your art.  From William and Mary's 1983 yearbook.
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#skeleton #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance we assumed it to be a snowman, then thought it was a polar bear, and now we're not sure.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #snowman #polar bear #winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Update, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #extraterrestrial #space alien
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Marge Askinforit, by Barry Pain:

[This book, published in 1921, contains an epigraph from the future.]

***
“And every week you opened your hoard
Of truthful and tasteful tales—
How you sat on the knees of the Laureate Lord,
How you danced with the Prince of Wales—
And we knew that the Sunday Times had scored
In Literature and Sales.”
To Margot in Heaven.

By Clarence G. Hennessy (circa 1985).
***

[As it turned out, Margot (Asquith) died in 1945, at the age of 81--so 1985 was a pretty safe choice! (And I like the hedging implied by "circa.") But the really good news is that Clarence G. Hennessy appears to exist only for the purpose of attributing the epigraph. That is, there's no evidence of him elsewhere in this book, nor in Google.]

***
Parody should be brief, just as autobiography should be long—ars brevis, vita longa.

***
I was christened Margarine, of course, but in my own circle I have always been known as Marge.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #architecture
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July 24, 2021

Old News (permalink)
Nearly four decades before the short story that inspired "The Fly" science fiction films, boys were developing into human flies in Duluth.  From the Duluth Herald, 1920. 
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#flies #fly #human insect #vintage headline #human fly #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Shooing a leopard with an apron.  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #leopard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Beautifully designed coroprate symbol.  From The Film Daily, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #star of david #vintage hollywood #hollywood #logo #corporate symbol #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Second Golden Rule Book, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Satan and a soul."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #satan #grotesque #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vegetable people #vegetable headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #lion #thorn #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales by Marion Florence Lansing, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1972 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #jester #faces in things #question mark
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mosquito people.  From Northern Illinois' 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 #mosquito #yearbook #insect people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #illustration #shot glass
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #art deco
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"The ghostly fiddler."  From Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands by James William Buel, 1891.
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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 #fiddler #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #musician #saxophone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washinton College's yearbook, 1933.

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook #goat legged
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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 #silhouette #vintage photo #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #follow the light #joel chandler harris #light and shadow #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #antlers #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
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#vintage illustration #rolling
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July 23, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"What is it if it's not the show?"  Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An excellent likeness of the Invisible Thing!  From the Might and Magic Handbook.
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#invisible #not pictured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cataleptic astonishment.  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #astonishment #woman #vintage woman #catalepsy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fourth Golden Rule Book, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #deer #pet walker #doe
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Old News (permalink)
Great news!  "You are not as old as you think."  From an ad in Dynamic Science Fiction (British Ed.), 1954.
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#longevity #aging #vintage headline #youthfulness #headline #anti-aging
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Help us feed our monsters."  From Caveat Emptor, 1974.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #eyes on stalks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #hybrid #human headed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Update, 1981.
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#ufo #alien abduction #flying saucer
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#religion #vintage illustration #saint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #wheel of fortune #wheel of life #ferris wheel #medicine wheel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is from a decade before Schrödinger's Cat, so the kitty is in a cage, not a box.  From Rockford'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 #teddy bear #psychology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fire #straw man #strawman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1911 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #dog #illustration #right of way #dog crossing
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Barnard's 1987 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cats
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird:

***
"Several Garwells but no Hocklington and not a sniff of a Hocklington-Garwell."

[later]

Nor did they look as if they could ever have had a hyphen in the family, let alone a Hocklington.

[In other names: Waind, Arbican & Waind--very poetic sounding for a fictitious law practice!; and a Miss W/o/therspoon (my emphasis)]

***
"Alice in Wonderland," said the rector as if that explained everything.

***
Dr. Sorley McPherson had rolled his "r's" in an intimidating way[....] "Suicide," he went on, "was doubtless meant to be inferrrred."
Sloan thought the "r's" were never going to stop.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #lion
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July 22, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
Over two decades before The Story of Doctor Dolittle.  From Chatterbox, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #stork #doctor dolittle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'You are a fairy,' he whispered."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #monster #horror #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dropping very tiny hearts into the flowers.  From The Third Golden Rule Book, 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 #heart #flowers #prince
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Mood.  From MacMurray's 1966 yearbook.
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#despair #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fatigue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by A. R. Tilburne.  From Weird Tales, 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 #ghost #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mice #broom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #poliical cartoon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 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 #pig #illustration #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #camel #illustration #smart animal #literate animal
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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 ad #full moon #astrology #twilight #night sky #stars #moonlight #night #worship #vintage headline #half light #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mythology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mercury
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #demon #cauldron #hell #burned alive #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The glowing trees documented in old yearbooks -- the world's most mysterious forest.  From Elizabethtown's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1978.
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#vintage headline #math #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir Rhyne's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wordeater, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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July 21, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, 1993.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
One odd half-minute: turning "me" into "we":
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#reflection #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May money work for you today.  From the Wizardry 2 Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #money #occult #pegasus #flying horse #coin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Our restoration of Arthur Rackham's endpapers from Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 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 #skeleton #endpapers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rowan Technical's 1987 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #multiple universes #vintage yearbook #yearbook #another dimension
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The living ghost."  From Unknown, 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 #ghost
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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 #hand #palmistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #knot #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #giant #inflatable #crossbow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The caption says, "Good!  Death!"  From Tulane's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #headache #vintage man #man #electric chair #head crusher
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #death #skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insect #bug #disease #fly #illustration #snow angel #ad #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #fairy #butterfly woman #butterfly people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Grelot, 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #humpty dumpty #royalty #egg #egg king #king egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #fish #illustration #fish king #fish net #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #severed head #giant head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Castles in the air may be created by anyone, but they are sustained by the combined efforts of jesters and threefold owls.  From Bryson's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #king #goat #oz
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Too Many Sleuths," by Vincent Starrett:

***
G. Washington Troxell--with a futile gesture he concealed a preliminary George--listened with attention to the reporter's account of the murder.
***
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #giant #biblical #six fingers
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July 20, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A flypaper hat.  From Chatterbox, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #flies #fly #hat #flypaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A two-headed snake from Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #snake #two headed #two headed snake
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"All these centuries, all that men have accomplished, and yet we know knowing about what's going to happen tomorrow."  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.
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#prediction #dark shadows
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
From Junior English in Action.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #giant cat #fear of cats
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #severed head #alcohol #decapitated
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the song "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" (1952).
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #stars #starry night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #demon #war #missile #warhead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades by Florence Holbrook, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #witch #witchcraft #halloween #broomstick #silhouette #anthropomorphism #occult #october #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #butterfly net #art
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Old News (permalink)
"In these shadows are our routine pathways."  From Montreat-Anderson's 1962 yearbook.
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#night people #creature of the night #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ann's Family by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #pig #piglet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #money #anthropomorphism #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death by the Half Dozen, by Matthew Hole:
***
[Moon / Fish / Hold the Ocean dept.]

She didn't feel so much like a fish out of water here, as like a fish on the moon.

***
He spied the back of DS Broadripp....With his frothy white head of hair and brown suit, he looked like a cappuccino.

[later]

His face had gone so red that the contrast with his hair made him resemble a strawberry with a dollop of cream on top.

[and in related news]

Tarricone and Jac followed Broadripp out the front door, his thick mop of white hair leading them out like a beacon.

***
"It helps to be able to read upside down."
Tarricone was unimpressed. "It's clearly made the blood rush to your head," he replied.
***

[By the way, a central character in this book is a drag queen known as Harmonica Helix.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #clown #rabbit #circus #bear #rollerskates #dancing bear
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Transitional objects from Peace College's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #toys #doll #comfort object #transitional object
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #eight arms #artist #deity #many arms
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July 19, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to May Shepard, who said of our site, "Every one of these posts is a treasure."
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Old News (permalink)
"Excels in making sailors feel happy."  Ahem, it's the very definition of "yeoman service."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#vintage gay #mustache #vintage headline #innuendo #gay #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A flying carpet adventure recorded off a spirit radio.
Thanks to Pilfering Apples, who said: "I've been truly enjoying this serial adventure! The bold exploring team has captured my heart. If this is truly the last we hear of them, I'll be sad--though happier, true, for having known them at all! Prof. Oddfellow's broadcasts always seem to tell the stories I remember from childhood or from dreams--the ones no one else remembers, that make utter sense on their own."
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#ken clinger #prof. oddfellow #flying carpet #smiling pillow #magic carpet #video #penetralia #radio serial
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May no mustaches haunt your dreams tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #mustache #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Counterpane Fairy, written and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 1898.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #tiny person
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Planet Stories, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #tentacles #octopus man #many arms
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #noah's ark
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #gambling #damnation #drinking #hell #jester #doctor #medicine #syringe #crutches #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1896 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales by Marion Florence Lansing, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #rat #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #antlers #cosplay #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #money #chameleon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #all-seeing eye #eye in the sky
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana (Missoula) yearbook of 1907.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #contortionist #yoga
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1932 yearbook.
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#humor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #joke #doing without
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, use shoes to stash away your stolen clothespins.  From Blacky Daw by Adelaide Palmer and illustrated by Dorothy Saunders, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #crow #shoe #clothespins
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Out of the inkwell."  From The Film Daily, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #clown #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She bent over the candles as she lighted them."  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the [Ontario] Tangent, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals
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July 18, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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#religion #vintage illustration #good and evil #exorcism #flatulence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sooty by Ambrosina Hurcum and illustrated by Eleanor Mussey Young, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Haunters of the Silences by Charles George Douglas Roberts, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #horse #swimming horse #swimming animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #chinese #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Cupid's Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford, 1910.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #altar #wedlock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #weightless #floating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #clown #balloon #siamese twins #conjoined #hester
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Expansion and contraction.  From Pennsylvania State's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mayhem #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We agree: "Something Must Be Done" (William B. Davenport, 1881).
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#vintage book #book #do something
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National-Louis' 1989 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #once upon a time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
"In this wheat bye-and-bye."  From Clarion's 1911 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #anthropomorphism #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cricket
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bryson's 1923 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #rabbit #brer rabbit
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, by Jerome K. Jerome:

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

***
From Dewey Decimated, by Charles A. Goodrum:

"My mother named me Betty and my father was afraid I'd disappear into a sea of Betty Joneses so he put the Crighton in the middle. I managed to slip out of the Betty about the ninth grade and never looked back."
***

From one of Simon Brett's Charles Paris novels:

Impresario Marius Steen, the man behind such stage successes as One Thing After Another, Who's Afraid of the Big Bed Wolf? and, of course, his current smash-hit at the King's Theatre, Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other...
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #money #coin
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July 17, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #living toy #yarn doll #knitting needle
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
There's a fine line between general haunting and specific ghosts.  From Dark Shadows episode 161.
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#ghost #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #monk #faces in things #candles with faces #candle face #candle people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1952 yearbook of Colorado College.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #mountain
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trumpet #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana (Missoula) yearbook of 1907.

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#vintage illustration #devil #skull #hell #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hell mouth #moloch #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #mask #darkness #night #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bryson's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #salt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Humpty-Dumpty William and Co. by George Macruder Battey, Jr. and illustrated by C. J. Holleran, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The third labor of Hercules.   From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #stag #hercules
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's why the earth wobbles.  From Wake Forest's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #atlas #globe #giant #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The nature of this UFO will be obvious to fans of the cult TV show The Prisoner: it's "Rover."
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #strange light #orb
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Duke's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #dog #pet walker #people who look like dogs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Scorpio.  From Colorado College's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #scorpion #astrology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #scorpio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#monster #vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Queens College's 1955 yearbook.
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#books #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fountain #1950s #reading circle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cholera chased away by the hymns of religious fanatics.  From The Wasp, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #disease #cholera #musician #salvation army
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July 16, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A flying carpet adventure recorded off a spirit radio:
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#ken clinger #prof. oddfellow #flying carpet #smiling pillow #magic carpet #video #penetralia #radio serial
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1944.
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#penguin #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you're feeling pestered by an east wind, may you slice your way through.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #sword #wind
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Between our lips a ghostly thing."  From The Lifted Cup by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, 1921.
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#ghostly #kiss
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Closeup magazine #1.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #mad scientist #bottled ghost
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #snail #tiny man #giant snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Everything looks different from the other side of a border.  From Nebelspalter, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #two headed #border
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School's 1903 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sororities
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do not bother green lizards and do not make them angry."  From a teacher training guide to Navajo cultural beliefs, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #native american #lizard #navajo #1980s #taboo
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
New Orleans pralines.  From Tulane's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mannequin #new orleans
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #magician #birds #as above so below #tarot #tarot magician #feed the birds #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #humor #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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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.
45938 19698
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #kneeling
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"Kisses sound like popcorn."  From Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #popcorn #kissing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ya-Hoo, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #demon #satyr #goat legged
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Who Is Charlie Rumbold? by Steven Elvy:

***

[I guess Steven is his own elf!]

Character name: Petunia Hemple-White

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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
Hypnotized into fast arithmetic.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #hypnosis #mathematics #math #arithmetic
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July 15, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tongue of Time by William Harrison, 1857.
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#vintage illustration #timepiece #clock #biblical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #snow #winter #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #hand #knife
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Roly-Poly Book by Laura Rountree Smith, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #egg people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The lion watched them for many days."  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
You've heard the classic question about whether the glass is half full or half empty.  Turns out it's both, simultaneously.  A paradox!  From Title IX: The Half Full, Half Empty Glass (1981; ERIC ED209152).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mushroom #1940s #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #tire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #bull #vintage magazine #vintage automobile #automobile #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1929 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #spirit #goddess #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pull as they may on the devil's tail, it's stuck fast.  From La Colotte, 1908.
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#religion #vintage illustration #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Lost all too soon in hell."  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1969 yearbook.

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#hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #mad scientist #rabbit #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hyde Park's 1895 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rose #dew
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Old News (permalink)
"The moon is hell!"  From Astounding Science Fiction, 1950.
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#moon #hell #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's a Googlewhack: "Go fly a kite on a gentle Thursday."  From the University of Oklahoma's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #kite #graffiti #1970s #sidewalk #thursday
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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July 14, 2021

This May Surprise You (permalink)
It's lesser known that Jesus Christ was of a knightly order.  His coat of arms features a black cross mounted on 3 green hills, in a field of gold, topped with a double crown of stars and thorns.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A flying carpet adventure recorded off a spirit radio:
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#ken clinger #prof. oddfellow #flying carpet #smiling pillow #magic carpet #video #penetralia #radio serial
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Old News (permalink)
"Be grateful that you do not know everything."  From Lighted Pathway, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry 2 Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #magic wand #japanese #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss in Boots, illustrated by Eric Winter.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots
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Always Remember (permalink)
If you're ever bricked into a wall, may someone hold up a candle before the final brick is placed, "so you will always remember what the light was like."  From Dark Shadows, episode 442.
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#candle #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flamingo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The relentless opponent you can take anywhere!"  (No thank you.)  From a 1980 manual for a portable Backgammon game by Mattel.
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#nemesis #enemy #opponent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #dandy #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's giant eye holding a lantern is from L'Oeil de la Police, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #lantern #eye of god #giant eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #chicken
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #flying horse #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From French Follies, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #pig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And the things that are hidden by darkness and mind."  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How To Be An Alien by George Mikes and illustrated by Nicholas Bentley.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #physiognomy #people who look like animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
According to this map, the love is in southern Mississippi.  From Gulf Park College's 1944 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #heart #mississippi #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding Stories, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #science fiction #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Panzer's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #people who look like animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dismay.  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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July 13, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1875.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #statue #memnon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #horror #ghast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #sphinx
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #twisted
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #witch #menacing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #money #anthropomorphism #ram #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Magic mushrooms and (a hallucination of?) the peace angel.  From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1842.
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#vintage illustration #imp #shell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #positive and negative
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Journal of Transient Aerial Phenomena, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Giant hats and giant owls.  Reblog if you support.  From Henderson College's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #giant hat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big hat #tiny woman #hat #giant owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #wizard
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Art of Detection, by J. S. Spicer:

***
[Taken out of context, this line sounds like a bizarre twist on "You're not losing a daughter, you're gaining a son-in-law."]

"She lost a husband and gained a parrot!"

***
In her bright colors [she] looked like a work of abstract art darting around.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But the Diva was far away.  She heard nothing save the thing unheard by others."  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #diva
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The day Charlie Brown shook hands with Death.  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #vintage yearbook #charlie brown
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Old News (permalink)
"God save our gracious apathy."  From Innis Herald, 1985.
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#vintage headline #apathy #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Politics hasn't changed—it's wireless now, yet still a windup.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #political cartoon #mouthpiece
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July 12, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We again seek to make contact with the Other Side (in this case, also with the "other side of the pond"), via a clockwork cover of the British band Age of Consent's "The Beach."  You'll remember from the Grand Theft Auto V soundtrack the amazing song "Colours" by Age of Consent, and we're hononed that they were interested in hearing our clockwork take on "The Beach."  Note that we took the original lyrics in a different direction, changing the context to a departed soul navigating the Bardo as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.  Here's a link to the audio of our clockwork cover.
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #age of consent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How To Analyze People On Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #character reading #physiognomy #body type
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's sail piano is from Nebelspalter, 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 #piano #piano bed #piano boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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The Right Word (permalink)
Irving Layton, quoted in The Martlet, 1965.
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#poem #zeugma
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Ever felt belittled by a photgrapher?  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1963 yearbook.
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#beer #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Modern Screen, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #musician
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
A kitten's nightmare of two dogs.  From Three Little Kittens, written and illustrated by Katherine Pyle, 1920.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #cat #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.  (Our restoration, as per usual.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1930s #lamb
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke'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 #fraternities #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fraternities #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #king death
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Cleveland County Technical's 1978 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #aurora borealis #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1988 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 #1980s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We never encountered a stoll of fortune, but we did build a legless, self-levitating chair for two.  From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 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 #fairy tale #on top of the world
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson College's 1911 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism
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July 11, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From B.A.R., 1987.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let the dingo be with you."  From Woroni, 1993.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 #dancing #nun #dingo #chorus line #sisters of perpetual indulgence #dancing nuns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Swift as the shadow, short as any dream."  From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#dream #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #good and evil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of eccentrics having a "screw loose," but did you know the screw was from a coffin lid?  The caption reads, "Screws out of the coffin lid."  From Purdue's 1909 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 #pipe smoker #screw loose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #alligator #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Brevard's 1982 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's sad banjo angel is from Johns Hopkins' 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #banjo #musician #sad #broken string
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #hell hole #pitchfork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Have another one."  From William and Mary's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double #drunk #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #giant #japanese #vintage magazine #puppet master #magazine
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Teachers College's 1928 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #don't stop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #coffin #hooded figure #funeral #giant eye
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #genie #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sororities
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1988 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #fog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Satan cast out of heaven.  From The Foot-Prints of Satan, or, The Devil in History by Hollis Read, 1873.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #satan #fallen angel
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From the libretto to Thespis, by W. S. Gilbert:

THES. Oh why did the gods make me a manager?
SILL. (as guessing a riddle) Why did the gods make him a manager?
SPAR. Why did the gods make him a manager?
DAPH. Why did the gods make him a manager?
PRETT. Why did the gods make him a manager?
THES. No—no—what are you talking about? what do you mean?
DAPH. I’ve got it—don’t tell us—
ALL No—no—because—because—
THES. (annoyed) It isn’t a conundrum—it’s a misanthropical question.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you don't mind that they're unsorted, here's a bag of gems.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gem
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July 10, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A flying carpet adventure recorded off the spirit radio.  Thanks to Critic's Guide, who said: "Esperanto Kitty is a superstar - the whole team has captained our hearts to better shores."
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#ken clinger #prof. oddfellow #flying carpet #smiling pillow #magic carpet #video #penetralia #radio serial
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #skull #addiction #hand #drugs #syringe #drug addiction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 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 #fairy #doll #toy #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we tend to disbelieve birds who tell us their names.  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #talking bird #blackbird
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #wanted poster #blank canvas #not pictured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From When Fairies Were Friendly by Evaleen Stein, 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 #fairy
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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 #occult #celestial #beetle #scarab
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 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 #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #bottle car #vintage automobile #bottle #automobile
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1921.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #nightmare #demon #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Was there time to really say goodbye?  From Santa Clara's 1987 yearbook.
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#rhetorical question #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #saying goodbye #not enough time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #reading #brainstorm
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Beat it kid!  You'll catch up to yourself!"  From Elon's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #beat it
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #on fire #burned alive
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #sleep paralysis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Buchtel College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #humor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #laughter #three faces #illustration #1910s
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
Saint Anthony of Padua preaches to the fishes.  From La Colotte, 1908.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #monk #saint #fish #st. anthony
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago State's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #loneliness #yearbook #unloved #sad
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Old News (permalink)
From Is the Universe Governed by a Devil? by John Francis Smith, 1878.
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#devil #vintage headline #gnosticism #headline
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July 9, 2021

The Right Word (permalink)
Here's the password to be whispered thrice, out of anyone's hearing.  From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.  See Magic Words: A Dictionary.
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#magic word #1920s #abrcadabra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One of the many tools we use to create our posts.  From the Might and Magic Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Instantaneous surprise.  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #surprise #mustache #vintage man #man
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Ampersands (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1922.
* A manual for typographers published in 1917 acknowledged that there are many beautiful forms of the ampersand, yet it forbade their use in "ordinary book work."  Extraordinary books are another matter.  Our lavishly illustrated Ampersand opus explores the history and pictography of the most common coordinating conjunction.
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#vintage ad #ampersand #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The halcyon bird brings greetings.  From Swarthmore's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fable #lizard #stag
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Mansfield's 1983 yearbook.

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#mummy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #toilet paper #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1921.
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's as if the hooded giant eye is supervising the burning alive, the hot air balloon disaster, and the deadly lightning strike.  From L'Oeil de la Police, 1909.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1900 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Loch Ness Monster with a duck's head.  From Nebelspalter, 1934.  See How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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#vintage illustration #sea serpent #sea monster #loch ness monster #ducks #duck headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #egypt #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades by Florence Holbrook, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #little red riding hood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fraternities
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #crocodile #alligator #doctor #crying animal #1930s #crocodile tears
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Set for Murder, by Jolie Beaumont:

***
[This exchange doesn't really make sense--the people speaking, a pair of Broadway dancers, are not in the employ of Scotland Yard, and in any case they don't seem to understand the correct meaning of the 'royal we'--but I thought you'd still enjoy hearing about the "Broadway we."]

"When you say 'we,' Penny, do you mean the 'royal we,' as in Scotland Yard?"
Penny shook her head. "I mean the 'Broadway we,' as in you and me."

***
[Rhetorical Questions, Answered dept. The fashion mag provided a clue that the protagonists now wish they'd never stumbled on.]

"Oh, Penny, why did you have to buy that fashion magazine? Why didn't you buy the Saturday Evening Post or Popular Mechanics?"
"Because we work Saturday nights and we don't have a car."
***

Bonus: "the thin mustache that looked more like an afterthought than a mark of distinction"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goat-Feathers by Ellis Parker Butler, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #goat #feather
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July 8, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"We still have a dance to finish" -- a spirit message from 1935.  "Very best 73's" is a bit mysterious.  In morse code, 73 can be an abbreviation for "best regards."  In mathematics, 73 is known as a "star number."
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#spirit writing #spirit message
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Old News (permalink)
"Lie down ... pleasant dreams."  From Lighted Pathway, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #timepiece #dreaming #vintage headline #watch #headline
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It's Really Happening (permalink)
"Everything that's happening must be leading to something."  From Dark Shadows episode 1014.
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#dark shadows
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"He trusts to luck!"  From The Film Daily, 1940.
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#vintage ad #blindfolded #lucky #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin College's 1918 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #spooky #occult #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #initiation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psyche by Louis Couperus and illustrated by Dion Clayton Calthrop, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #psyche
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Precursors (permalink)
Five years before the debut of the floor game Twister, people were playing chess that way.  From Gannon's 1961 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #chess #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, July 1940.
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#vintage illustration #demon #fear #monster #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Would you like a frozen DNA sample of your sponsored alien?"  From Notes from the Hangar, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The evolution of a 'bone-head.'"  From Wake Forest's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bonehead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The peace angel's airplane.  From Nebelspalter, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #airplane #peace angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #bull
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon #ghost #spectre #spirit #vintage photo #phantom #vintage yearbook #vampire #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carleton's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #red ovals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Falling ballerinas.  From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #falling #ballet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny #tickling #insects
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Precursors (permalink)
Today's 3-D technology doesn't hold a candle to the 1930s.  From For Men Only, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #technology #1930s #television #3d tv
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1967 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Whiskers, The Autobiography of a Goat by Frances Montgomery and illustrated by W. H. Fry, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #goat #clown #circus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism
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July 7, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to Critic's Guide, who said: "The episode is... a gem. Interesting, well-reasoned rhetoric, seasoned by the usual bouquet of the arcane and surreal."
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#mythology #fairy tale #wizard of oz #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't you bother me, you old rascal."  From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cow #fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gray magic."  From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #magic #1920s #fish bowl #gray magic
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Magicians know not to pull rabbits by the ears.  From The Film Daily, 1940.
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#vintage ad #magician #rabbit #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Love and Death.  From The Magazine of Art, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #cupid #love and death #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Call now; operators are standing by.  From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cherub #1930s #telephone operator
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #chicken #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Book by Sophie May, 1866.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #illustration #sylph
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1972 yearbook.

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#halloween #monster #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bryson's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #dance of death
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From South Western Normal's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In order to strangle the spectre of alcoholism, one has to pick up a bottle, and that's a built-in peril.  From L'Oeil de la Police, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alcoholism #alcohol #bottle #strangling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chowan's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #holy grail
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #despair #mountaintop #serpent #snake #birds #boa constrictor #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #severed head #burglar #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I don't want to be a witch!"  From Spellbound. 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
They thought they could fool us, but we're not so easily tricked.  This is one of those optical illusions in which both figures are exactly the same height.  From National-Louis' 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #optical illusion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dancing there the night before."  From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
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Old News (permalink)
"Pencil in her face."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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July 6, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're belatedly thankful that Golden State Chronicle used our photo of Disney's California Adventure park in a news story.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The beginning or the end."  From The Film Daily, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #palette #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sins in symbol."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #sin #grotesque #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's the devil loving a concert of European national anthems conducted by Mars.  From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil #musicians #national anthem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daddy's Bedtime Fairy Stories by Mary Graham Bonner, 1916.
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1957.
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#silence #vintage headline #say nothing #headline #mum's the word
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pilot Bails Out, written and illustrated by Don Blanding, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The seasons always begin this way, but most of us are so glued to our devices that we miss the rabbit drummers.  From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #musical animal #change of season
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bugs
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1954 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hiding
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Old News (permalink)
Pulsating coffins flying through the sky.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Wuthering Hollow Mystery, by N. C. Lewis:

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"Happens to the best of us," I said, instantly regretting my words. Flying squirrels, top hats, Victorian capes, bramble bushes, and a corpse didn't happen to anyone else--ever.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor Skinner and illustrated by Blanche Fischer Wright, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dodo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Breezing through and touching upon the high points.  From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A doppelgänger from the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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July 5, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Why combine a haunted grandfather clock, Tesla spirit radio, and grand piano?  All is explained (and then some) in Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.  (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #penetralia #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Old News (permalink)
Eerily, these headlines from the Duluth Evening Herald, May, 1910, tell the story of a superior horror film from 2006.  Can you identify the film in question?  (Hint: the film is an adaptation of a 1999 video game.)
Answer: .....Silent Hill...... (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
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#horror #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Her best friend is a lollipop.  From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #candy #lollipop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Body of a lion, face of a man, sting of a scorpion.  A manticore from Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The firebird from Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bird #firebird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Chariviari, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #crocodile #alligator #eaten alive
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #knight #sentence diagram #candle #light in darkness #menorah #seven candles #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This cat's pupils are cats.  A detail from the cover of Animals and Why They Matter by Mary Midgley, 1983.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #dragon #crying
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grindstone
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Demons of the storm."  From Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands by James William Buel, 1891.
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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 #demon #ship #storm #weather spirit #storm demon #storm spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration #barbed wire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Spring Arbor's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cobweb #the end #spider web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #war and peace #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some Mary Poppins-style levitating umbrellas from Brevard's 1966 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#umbrella #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From No Clear Reason, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #bird headed #hybrid #bird people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Refreshing honesty about how the college system works.  From UNC Asheville's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A ram that gives gold ducats."  From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 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 #money #ram #gold #folk tale
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July 4, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"All, all go into a ball."  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 #faces in things #yarn ball
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Old News (permalink)
All things one at a time were overwhelming enough.  "All things together," from Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #overwhelmed #headline #everything at once
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Old News (permalink)
"UFOs start firewords one day early this year."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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#ufo #fireworks #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #rooster #musical animal #folk tale
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
"Break the news to mother."  From Wid's Daily, 1919.
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#calligraphy #hand lettering #no news is good news
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
From What Time Is It? by M. Ilin and illustrated by N. Lapshin, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #timepiece #1930s #broken clock #broken watch
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Death is hidden in clocks… Every means and every weapon is valid to save oneself from death and time. If a straight line is the shortest distance between two fated and inevitable points, digressions will lengthen it; and if these digressions become so complex, so tangled and tortuous, so rapid as to hide their own tracks, who knows — perhaps death may not find us, perhaps time will lose its way, and perhaps we ourselves can remain concealed in our shifting hiding places."
—Carlo Levi's introduction to Tristram Shandy
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#death #clocks #digression
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A moon prop that can smile or frown.  From St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #moon #vintage diagram #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mathematics #vintage man #man #addition
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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 #silhouette #full moon #jules verne #vintage yearbook #yearbook #luna #moon goddess #art
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #graveyard #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Great chapter title: "The Black Spot is Erased from the Map of the World and There Is Dancing in the Sunlight."  From City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings, 1920.
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#map #vintage headline #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mars in disguise as the peace angel.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #mars #war and peace #peace angel #disguise
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1907 yearbook.  Important: How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #cauldron #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret societies #fraternities
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pan's Garden by Algernon Blackwood, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #vegetable people #potatoes #potato people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "The friendly beasts our brothers."  From Short Stories for Little Folks by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From a Jules Feiffer memoir:

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My girlfriend, Judy Sheftel... had an old-fashioned, forties movie star face with eyes that shared secrets although it wasn't always clear to me what they were.
***

From Evenings with Cary Grant, by Nancy Nelson:

[According to the author, CG told the following anecdote]

"I've always been apprehensive about serving as a master of ceremonies since introducing my colleague Walter Pidgeon one night and hearing myself say, 'Mr. Privilege, this is indeed a pigeon.'"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #hand #palmistry #diagram
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July 3, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You can judge a cover by the book" is a Googlewhack.
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#book
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Prof. Oddfellow wanders into the wrong room but does his standup routine anyway.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #standup comedy
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you not dream of eyeglasses tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #eyeglasses #spectacles #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Down with the last judgment."  "Down with angels."  "God go home."  From The Martlet, 1968.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 #protest #picketing #demonstration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #crow #blackbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This light must live."  From Hearst's, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #asleep #woman #vintage woman #sleeping woman
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The Right Word (permalink)
The six-bit word meaning "death" is complacency.  From The Film Daily, 1944.
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#death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose by Roger Garis and illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 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 #anthropomorphism #king #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Jumping out of his clothes and into the mouth of the giant mask.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #mask #vintage magazine #eaten alive #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Virginia Commonwealth's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The three ravens.  From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916. 
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #ship #blackbird #raven
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Ellendale yearbook of 1915.

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #mannequin #living mannequin #living doll #haunted mannequin #haunted doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spires
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #decapitated #losing one's head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1908 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sorority
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
You may have read the evidence that Lincoln faked his death, but even more intriguing is the idea that he still lives.  From Lincoln and the Riddle of Death by Robert V. Bruce, 1981.
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#lincoln
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #griffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands by James William Buel, 1891.
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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 #devil #satan #giant hand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This professor's official yearbook portrait, as a vampire.  From College of the Holy Cross' 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #dracula #1980s
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July 2, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
There's nothing like the old comedies: "I'm doomed, I'm scared, and I'm through."  From Gilligan's Island, episode 10.  (See our bizarre 19-minute documentary entitled Marooned Gray Areas of Identity on Gilligan's Island.)
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#gilligan's island #doomed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We love it when a log takes on the form of a castle.  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #castle #fireplace
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'm getting pretty good at accumulating guilts."  "And I'm not going to feel guilty about it at all."  From Dark Shadows episodes 1007 and 563.
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#guilt #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey #ostrich #knitting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It was in the sheer madness of insane fury that I shot thus into the Earth-Brain."  From Weird Tales, 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 #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When a baby goat eats the cherries off your hat.  From What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told By Herself by Emilie Poulsson and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Wonderlandish detail from A Little Book of Language by David Crystal.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#alice in wonderland
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Agnes Scott College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cheshire cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #pear #light bulb #fruit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilmington's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From College of the Holy Cross' 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"E.T. charged in kidnap."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #extraterrestrial #aliens #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Long Buried Secrets, by Cynthia Mills:

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A green and gold Turkish rug lay self-consciously in front of the stairs.

[I guess it's not only the flying carpets that are self-aware!]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #dog
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Together, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #car crash #vintage automobile #automobile #hand brake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May a gold dragon drop some of its treasure as it passes you by.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #gold
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 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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#vintage illustration #occult #hand #eye
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July 1, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How and why to turn words into magical sigils:
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#occult #magic #prof. oddfellow #magic words #sigil #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 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 #falling #jumping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sporting Yarns by Andrew Haggard and illustrated by Griff, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #moose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"With you, I leave a remembrance of miracles."  From Salve Regina's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #miracle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Roar!  From The Film Daily, 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 #lion #roar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Enchanted House by Edith Harrison and illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 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 #fairy tale #rabbit #flamingo
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #scottish #kilt #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #fish #lily pad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, 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 #oz #tin man #illustration #silver polish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Taking a spill.  It's difficult to make out, but I think he's on a carousel house that has come loose.  Carousel horses are the theme of this 1934 yearbook from Colorado College.

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

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#vintage illustration #falling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #carousel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some cryptozoology from Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1988.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bigfoot #cryptozoology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #political cartoon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mitchell'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 #the end #egg #mountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen, illustrated by Emily Harding, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Three reasons why we avoid vending machines: the possibility of glowing entities, the cost, and the fact that we don't get the really nifty machines they have in Japan.  From College of the Holy Cross' 1988 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vending machine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #broomstick
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 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 #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"The old man's chaplet."  From The Century, 1874.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #grave #angel #mourning #rosary #praying #prayer beads
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #up a tree
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