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July 31, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to Wesley de F. Coelho for writing, "The first time I listened to your words, I was feeling lost, but you changed something inside me that day. Today, I got a research grant and doing the work mostly steadily helped me find my way. Thank you."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bigfoot of the Ozarks, via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2005.  Check out this surprising peek into the life of a follower of the Church of Bigfoot.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A night of terror.  From Scribner's 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insomnia #sleepless #night #predator #wild animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #bird mask #plague doctor #art
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
These doctors aren't included on our healthcare plan.  From Keep-Well Stories For Little Folks by May Farinholt Jones, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghosts and Goblins by Wilhelmina Harper.
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#vintage illustration #bat #money #treasure chest
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clemson University's 1918 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 #monocle #dandies
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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 #death #skeleton #occult #fraternity #hazing #cryogenics
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Though Wikipedia tells us Flower Power began in the late 1960s, here's a Flower Power tie from 1950s.  From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #animal headed #vintage yearbook #yearbook #necktie #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1951.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #two faces #two faced
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Precursors (permalink)
Three cats, three women, and a rifle -- a precursor to Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!  From two decades earlier, in Brevard's 1946 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook #the end #1940s #vintage women
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Ontario's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horn #musical animal #musician
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#eccentric
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We love the idea of observatories and planetariums being familiar scenes.  From Earlham's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dome #observatory #planetarium
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cat #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #achilles #shield
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #leopard #tied up #tarzan
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If I had any feelings left, I might pity you."  From Dark Shadows episode 448.
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#feelings #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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July 30, 2022

The Right Word (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited in Dictionary.com's article, "Wand At The Ready! These Magic Words Will Cast A Spell On You."
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#magic words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cave
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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 #truth #spilled ink #tiny woman #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lighted Pathway, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flashlight #light and darkness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Re-emerging into form.  From Magic Essence of Being by Jeanie Lemaire and Corinn Codye, 1998
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #light body #astral body #spirit body #spirit self
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Soft Machine by David Porush.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#robot #cyborg #android #cyberpunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #wizard #magic #mailbox #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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)
A brooding Fate Spinner from Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.s
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spider #fate spinner
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Note the signature at the top of this spirit photograph from 1920 -- the image is upside down and backwards.  "A face appears over the man's image on the left of the photograph, covered in a cloak. Although indistinct, the man apparently identified the 'spirit' as an ex-work colleague who had died thirty two years earlier."  Courtesy of the National Media Museum Collection, via The Odd Side of Me.
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#ghost #vintage photo #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Skyward and Back Again by Lucy Robinson, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #sphere #crystal ball
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It is, indeed, most mischievous to wield a hand puppet or doll.  From the State Normal School for Women's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #puppet #mischievous #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #astral body #emotional #spirit body
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Old News (permalink)
"Familiy says UFO sounded like 'a lot of bees.'"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1981.
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#ufo #bees #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1912 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #tuba
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A smiling, mandolin-loving cat from Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smiling cat #smiling animal #mandolin #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From An African Millionaire by Grant Allen (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 #dandy #mustache #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Drum and the Hoe, Life and Lore of the Haitian People by Harold Courlander (apparently rare and going for over $800 over at Amazon).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #voodoo #old book #vévé #haiti
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July 29, 2022

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly to the water clock in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee's Dollywood park.  
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#clock #temporal anomaly #dollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 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 #alice in wonderland #playing cards
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #shaggy dog story
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hide and Seek Town."  From Scribner's 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crossroads
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1850.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #reflection #narcissus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #animal fight
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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 #moon #moonlight #dandies #vintage men #men #skipping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1954.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fire #overheated #hot flash
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Sundials (permalink)
"Bird's eye view of the sun dial at night."  (Full disclosure - we painted in the missing apostrophe.)  From Indiana University's 1908 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sun dial
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Angelo State's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#witch #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #living toys
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Australian UFO Bulletin, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #star
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #stocks
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Why beat around the bush!"  From The Film Daily, 1942.
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#vintage ad #broom #beating around the bush #bush #ad
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dreaming #starless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
That feeling when you're trying to mind your own business but flowers are staring at you.  From Earlham's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Coincidence Authority by John Ironmonger.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#spinner #coincidence #fate spinner
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder in Blue Street, by Frances Crane:

***
[Continuing the "workless clocks" theme started by a different author! And now it's metaphorical!]
"Sara's the works. Without her Dave wouldn't even tick."

***
"Not a chance," he said.
He picked up the word chance like a material thing. He examined it. He admired it.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #stork
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July 28, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse
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Old News (permalink)
Before-and-after headlines, with a father's lost son not found among sun worshippers.  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#sun worship #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #croquet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mirror #guilt #bad advice #self loathing
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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 #occult #star #macrocosm #hexagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #snowman #bear
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1962.
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#fear #vintage headline #headline #dark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #proportion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the were tiger seek prey that smells nothing like you.  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 #tiger #weretiger
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Old News (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #lost time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 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 #fire #native american #iroquois #bonfire #storyteller
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Old News (permalink)
It goes a long way toward explaining bullying.  "Students begin life as demons."  From The Current Sauce, 1977.
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#demon #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An Indiscreet Fellow" by Du Maurier, from Century Illustrated (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 #pipe smoker #surveillance society #over your shoulder
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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 #goat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait, with spirit double.  From Earlham's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #spirit double
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's nice to have a choice between "just so" and "really so" stories.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #old book
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
The answer is right there above the question: there are two me's (contrary to the popular expression, "me, myself, and I").  From Mysteries: An Investigation Into the Occult, the Paranormal and the Supernatural by Colin Wilson, 2006.
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#me
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If your friend went out and ate a six pack of green beans every night, would you talk to him or her about it?"  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #addiction #green beans
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
From Always a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough.
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#witch #vintage headline #headline
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July 27, 2022

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly to the Camden, Arkansas courthouse, whose clock tower is hands-free.  We agree with Mark Bauer that "absence of data does not necessarily mean the absence of effect (which is listed as '—')."
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#clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, in Essay de Papillonneries Humaines (1756).  Via LifeTakesLemons.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #balancing act #tightrope walker #butterfly people
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #doctor #hypnosis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A snowman that looks like a photo has been cut out -- perfect for an old yearbook!  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#snowman #vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The house with no clocks."  From Martlet Magazine, 1966.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 house #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
So rare -- boxing cupids in a baseball glove.  From Hamilton's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #boxing #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baseball glove
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scissors #1900s #giant scissors #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baker's 1906 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #owl #full moon #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ape as harpist."  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 #ape #harp #musical animal #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Huntington's 1922 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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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #evolution #reading animal #illustration #smart animal #intelligent animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Old News (permalink)
"Death was a spooky stranger."  From Together, 1967.
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#death #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #aesop
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
The first floating university's primary promise is that it's 99 44/100% men.  From Purple Parrot, 1923.
* 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 #vintage ad #ship #men only #ryndam #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat Who Thought Too Much by Robin D. Gill.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of "bathtub gin," and here's what it looks like.  Also, this is how hot toddies are made.  From Murder At Moose Jaw by Tim Heald.
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#vintage illustration #gin #alcohol #bathtub #bottle #hot toddy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An accurate depiction of public school.  From Harper's, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #public school #vat
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #strange
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July 26, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #strong woman
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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 #occult #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The littlest things upset the nerves.  From Together, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #nervous #1960s #ad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
The weather following people's moods is as good an explanation as meteorologists have come up with.  From Dark Shadows episode 1122.
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#weather #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"UFOs exist in minds, hearts."  With so much mindlessness and heartlessness, it's little wonder so few people are in touch with UFOs.  By the way, there's a heart within the mind, too.  Headline via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997; book cover from Heart of the Mind: Engaging Your Inner Power To Change With Neuro-linguistic Programming by Connirae Andreas and Steve Andreas. 
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#ufo #heart #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Truth be told, we're still trying to fit into the postwar world, and plastics frankly haven't been the answer we hoped they'd be.  From Mechanix Illustrated, May 1945.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #plastics #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 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 #vintage ad #shy #confession #hat #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Edda and the Oak by Elia Wilkinson Peattie and illustrated by Katherine Merrill, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy ring #mushroom
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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 #puppy #vintage men #men
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #father time
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Her official yearbook portrait, with black sun.  We previously saw this black sun portrait.  From Earlham's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #black sun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 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 #creation #adam and eve
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Cats are ancestors of the violin.  [We once met a woman who said she had been a violin in a former life.  Perhaps she wasn't so crazy.]  The techniques described in How to Be Your Own Cat are a stepping-stone toward becoming your own violin.
From Elmhurst's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #violin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #aura
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Fear of flattery."  From Lighted Pathway, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #flattery #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Green Plaid Pants, by Margaret Scherf:

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"He's as slippery as a canned peach."

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"A person could read the paper through her."

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"I do not approve of things that look like something else."

***
Emily had to talk to everyone on the plane. To Emily an uninterviewed passenger was like melting ice cream--something had to be done immediately to save it.

***
"[The waterfall] reminds me of Niagara."
"You've never been to Niagara."
"I know. But it reminds me anyway."

***
[Said of someone who is pouting.] You could have played solitaire on her lower lip.

***
Marie collected a certain amount of disdain and spread it over her amazement.

***
[In the library.]
The picture of Miss Ada dealing with a fence was so ridiculous that Henry laughed out loud, to the distress of a gentleman studying the action of wind in a tunnel.
[Btw, Ada's surname is Birtwistle.]

***
The office buildings on Fortieth and Forty-second streets had only occasional lighted windows where some poor devil was figuring the square root of minus one or sloshing a mop about.

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"You look like an old baked bean," Link greeted him cordially.

***
"Where was [the contraband] in the meantime?"
"Oh, in a box of Kleenex or wrapped up in a waffle."
[Disclosure: There were waffles on the premises, so this is silly but not wildly silly.]

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"She's in the nose-oil business."
[It is subsequently explained that since nose skin apparently doesn't wrinkle with age, there's a fortune to be made selling nose-oil cream as a skin treatment.]
***

[Bonus: A reference to "workless wall clocks" among the clutter in an antiquer's workshop. If I understand correctly, these would be "timeless" clockfaces with no innards, yes? (:v>]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Yanking the wig off a sleeping scarecrow.  From Chatterbox, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #dummy #wig #strawman
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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 #monkey
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July 25, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #ghost hunting #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Runaway Equator by Lilian Bell and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #conductor #ox
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
When exercise is a state of mind -- Psycho-Yoga by B. Edwin.
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#yoga
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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 #dandies #men fighting #slapping
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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.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #panic #planning #preparation
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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 #demon #imp #devil #magick #conjuration #fairy tale #black magic #evocation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Just because you feel on top of the world doesn't mean the celestials welcome you.  From Oberlin's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #outer space #man in the moon #comet #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lucky Cat by Frances and Richard Lockridge and illustrated by Zhenya Gay.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1925 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 #jousting
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
* 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 #faces in things #painter #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1887 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sports #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Rare to see a family orbiting a non-bible.  You've heard of "anti-matter," but this what anti-reading-matter looks like.  From Together, 1967.
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#vintage ad #bible #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The ghost of a demolished building forever haunts Earlham's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #architecture #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
The explanation for everything turns out to be 338 pages long ... which is actually rather concise, considering just how much is involved in "everything."  From The Explanation for Everything by Lauren Grodstein.
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#explanation #vintage headline #headline #unified theory
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Dinotherium."  From Chatterbox, 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 #dinosaur #deinotherium
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  From Motion Picture Herald, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #monster #jekyll and hyde #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the North Carolina College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #buddha
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May no succubus molest your sleep.  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 #demon #succubus
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July 24, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #airplane #space age #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1922.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cats #cat and mouse
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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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#religion #vintage illustration #fire #dog #india #bull
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Old News (permalink)
From Mechanix Illustrated, May 1945.
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#1940s #vintage headline #hypnosis #soldier #vintage men #men #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #giant #tobacco #tiny man #cigarette #ad
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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 #eagle #vintage ad #demon #devil #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Ontario's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #balloon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wish Fairy and Dewy Dear by Alice Ross Colver, 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College’s 1970 yearbook.

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

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#spider #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1990 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #animals #vintage yearbook #yearbook #collage
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Our indoor neighbors, mice."  From Outdoors, Indoors, and Up the Chimney by Charles McIlvaine, 1906.
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#mice
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Yeah, the clock we live on is in storage, too.
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#vintage illustration #clock #collage #library book #asimov
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1958 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
Puzzles like this always trip me up.  From Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne.
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#yes or no #normality #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #boar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #maledicta #expletive #bunk bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #cross dressing #mop hair #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2005.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cryptozoology
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July 23, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #weathervane #fashion #vintage fashion #hat #steeple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bird
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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 #jester #the end
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cat On My Shoulder, edited by Lisa Rogak.
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#cat
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1956.
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#hourglass #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It takes 1199 episodes, but there's one day in which Dark Shadows' Collinwood mansion is not haunted or troubled.  (Second still from episode 9.)
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#haunted house #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #swing #giraffe #swinging
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Together, 1968.
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#ghost #vintage photo #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #potion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mystery and Romance of Astrology by C. J. S. Thompson, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #sun #astrology #chariot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Wicked men take portraits." From A Ramble Round the Globe by Thomas Robert Dewar (1894).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #photographer #wicked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #king #mushroom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Earlham's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#wizard #vintage yearbook #costume #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He used his pipe and she used her legs."  From The Peter Newell Mother Goose, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dancing #musician #eggs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emory's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#death #skull face #vintage yearbook #nuclear war
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There is always the underlying trait of alienation—no matter how 'great' the record, tape or film."  From Martlet Magazine, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #mask #alienation #film
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Faces going places."  From Southeastern's 1978 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maliar, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #full moon #creature of the night #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pianist #musician
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Old News (permalink)
"Is God dead?  Even a majority opinion to that conclusion will not achieve His demise."  From Taylor Magazine, 1967.
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#religion #god #vintage headline #headline
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July 22, 2022

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a very significant temporal anomaly to El Dorado, Arkansas.  The symbol of Main Street is a clock, but none of the clocks on the town square agree on the time.  Even the clock printed on the town square banner is correct only twice a day.  El Dorado's Main Street has been named the best Main Street in the United States, and no wonder — the feeling of classic Americana is ... well ... literally timeless! 
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#temporal anomaly #el dorado arkansas
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #bigfoot #video #penetralia
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Old News (permalink)
"By pastor's prayers earthbound spirit, aided to atone, moves on."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#religion #ghost #prayer #vintage headline #headline #pastor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bear #three bears
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Old News (permalink)
"Monsters run rampant in Arkansas."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2000.
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#monster #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A better scan of this one.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat and mouse #illustration #nice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #eagle #fire #uncle sam #1920s #world on fire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Looks like this rare book is going for $1,500!  "Can't come up.  Fish don't come up," from Secret, Don't Tell, The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism by Carla Emery and illustrated by Corey Smigliani.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drowning
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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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Sundials (permalink)
"Oh, gee, will you look at the time!" [we imagine her saying] in As We Sweep through the Deep by Gordon Stables, 1894.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis' 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #skull #alcoholism #alcohol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #four horsemen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1872.
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#vintage illustration #goya #condemned
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Faculty dogs only."  From Wake Forest's 1958 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #fire hydrant
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Old News (permalink)
It's not that easy after all, but this says that getting a bigger bed will help.  From Not That Easy by Radhika Sanghani.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A gargoyle's take on beauty.  From Duke's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle #beauty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #castle #france
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Elephant is White, by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon:

***
["Margarine" as a color dept.]
A number of utility shops lurked dimly behind faded blue, pink, and margarine façades.

***
Save for a pair of tortoiseshell glasses drinking all by itself the room was empty.

***
"And every year when the ice on the great rivers melts, they take their yacht, the Boris Goudonov--and go to see," Nina frowned, "a cow."

***
"Who is this Averchenko?" asked Pete jealously. "A Russian poet?"
"But no," said Nina. "He is a humorist, only very funny. Whenever two Russians meet in a railway carriage and laugh very loud, it is because they have just remembered something in Averchenko."

***
His mind was already busy with the intricate matter of inconspicuously inserting a better borscht into a conversation about Surrealism.

***
"My subconscious," said Raphael with pride, "is probably the most energetic subconscious outside Krafft-Ebbing."

***
The taxi bore its load of luggage like an Edwardian duchess wearing a floral hat at a garden party.

***
Clockwork elephants ran Donald Ducks right off the streets of Paris.
[That's poetic license, I assume: "Donald Ducks," in this context, reads funnier than the technically correct "Donalds Duck." (;v>]
***

[Bonus: Some names!]
le Comte Sans-Blague (JC-E precursor alert! https://www.salticid.com/jce/jceart.html)
the Marquis de Sang-Froid
Miss Penguin (a school instructor)
Kibitzer Incorporated (a film studio)

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #rat #up a tree #water rat
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July 21, 2022

The Right Word (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited by Meredith Danko in the Mental Floss article "32 Fascinating Harry Potter Word Etymologies."
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#magic word #harry potter #alohomora
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That terrible feeling when a bull approaches and you can't get yourself up.  From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A man-like figure appeared in the sky and landed in front of them."  From Myths and Legends of Australia by A. W. Reed and illustrated by Roger Hart.
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#vintage illustration #angel #mythology #aboriginal #if you had wings #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Nothing to wear.  From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #duel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the dragonfly you see today be a harbinger of good luck, not an evil omen.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #dragonfly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What a singularly handsome cat."  From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unknown Indian by Gertrude Bell Browne, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #bear #native american
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Martlet Magazine, 1967.
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#computer dating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse
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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 #walking the dog #dandies #vintage men #men #pet walker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Fort Wayne's 1967 yearbook.

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#religion #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #worship #1960s #hands up #hands in the air #hands up to heaven
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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.
76270 66878
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dread #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Go away!!!  Let me suffer alone."  From Western Ontario's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #leave me alone #suffering #woman #go away #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #librarian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This time we have caught it!"  From The Century, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #catching it
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It makes sense for an anthropomorphized monocle to be a cyclops.  From Wake Forest's 1958 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cyclops #monocle #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Not this!"  From Lighted Pathway, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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July 20, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
If you've ever wondered what frogs sing about, here's your answer.  "The frogs sing of everything."  From Where My Sight Goes by Yvor Winters, 1920. 
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#frog #musical animal
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly to this elk in New Orleans' Greenwood Cemetery.  The clock on the tomb is over an hour early.
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#cemetery #temporal anomaly
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The Right Word (permalink)
As soon as we figure out what it means, we'll be sure to start taking a circumspencive view more often!  From Ghost Trackers Newsletter, 1994. 
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#weird word
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
"The rose by any other name smells just as sweet!  And that goes for Limburger too!"  From The Film Daily, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cheese #rose #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #caged animal #mouse #cage #mousetrap
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
When was the last time you dreamed of leeches?  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 #symbol #leech
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Paper bag looks, from Woroni, 1998.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #faceless #no face #paper bag head #1990s #paper bag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #gnome
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The Right Word (permalink)
The Big U says, quoting The 6ths' "You You You You You":
"Why it's you you you you you."
Note that the Big U may have misheard the lyrics as including two one-letter words: "Y, it's U, U, U, U, U."
The Big U is from Wid's Daily, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #letter u
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Don't Take This the Wrong Way (permalink)
"Don't take this the wrong way, pal, but you'd better call it quite for tonight, and go take the air. You're not making any sense." —Fred Vargas, Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Body Snatchers by Susan Reed.
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#vintage diagram #good and evil #diagram #alien #reptilian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The divorce."  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #demon #divorce #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nasby in Exile by David Ross Locke, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #stunt #bar bet
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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 #cow #horns
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Earlham's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #otherworldly #blurred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #circus #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"All that day was despondency, dejection."  From The Century, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #despair #depression #hopeless #despondent #dejected
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
There's something weird about, and you can guess what.  From Wake Forest's 1958 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook #woman #vintage woman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2008.
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#ufo #darkness
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cynic's Rules of Conduct by Chester Field, 1905.
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#glass houses
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July 19, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Back to the Future poster.  (Thanks to PleasantScreams for noticing this!)  From Improvement Era, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1940s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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#vintage illustration #map #1920s #mount ararat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"I didn't know being a woman would be like this."  From Together, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
Relics of the Anti-Saints ... a book so diabolical that it's known only in the world of Dark Shadows.  From episode 1118.
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#magick #occult #grimoire #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Charles Stigliano.  From Coraddi, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #camel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wisconsin Medical Recorder, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #cadaver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Albion's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #overweight #buddha #fat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #test anxiety
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Yes, this absolutely counts as a "castle in the air."  From The American Annual of Photography, 1913.
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#photography #new york #photograph #vintage photography #castle in the air
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you're as a cool as a parkbench walker.  From Elizabethtown's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #park bench #cool
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"However, she believes in fairies, because she herself has seen one."  From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night
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Old News (permalink)
Yeah, enough with the kilns already!  "Ceramics has enough kilns now."  From the [DuPage] Courier, 1978.
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#vintage headline #headline #ceramics #kiln
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Cautious Overshoes, by Margaret Scherf:

***
He had bravely eaten six peanut cookies from the big box presented to him by the Sunday-school mothers to show their appreciation of something or other.

***
What was so discouraging to a clergyman as a meeting of other clergymen?

***
"Who could settle down, married to that whistling tea kettle?" [Cf. "I'm a Little Teapot" grown up.]
***

[Bonus: Scherf, idiosyncratically, calls puffed wheat or rice--at least I infer that's what she's talking about--"balloon cereal." This phrase appears to have no presence in the dictionaries, Wikipedia, Google Books, or the Internet in general.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #hot air balloon #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Female Seminary's 1893 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Pamela Colman Smith.  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #giant #pamela colman smith #Pamela Coleman Smith
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilson College's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #book #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
You've heard of Christmas in July, but Thanksgiving in July comes first.  From Lighted Pathway1988.
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#thanksgiving #vintage headline #july #headline
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July 18, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We're honored to have been asked for a Neons Gone Mad treatment of another song from Final Fantasy.  Oliver reponds:
It's nearly 4am and I am fluttering with happiness and excitement. I know I typically sing high praises of your music on common occasion, but this track in particular was just perfect for what I wanted. The blend of both a dreamy atmosphere, with nightmarish otherworldly instruments, perfectly fit the original nature of the song, one which is meant to be dreadful, yet, inspiring, simultaneously. You nailed that perfectly, and I just can't think of the exact words to explain just how much I loved this. ... I also want to thank you for making this beautiful trilogy of Final Fantasy tracks for the FNC Project as a whole. It really, really warms my heart. I can also now officially say I can listen to a cover of my favourite song made by one of my favourite musicians, with an ending dedicated to me specifically. That alone makes me smile so much. Thank you both for not just your willingness to compose these tracks, but for making me smile a lot recently during various different hardships with your music and other sketches. I apologize if this comment was super long winded, I'm just flooded with positive emotion right now and wish to share it with you.
Thanks also to Corwin Watts, who said: "Very nice. Music can be just as good as a wing and a prayer, and is often, as here, better!"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's rude to point trees at people.  From St. Nicholas, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #trumpet #musician #concentration #noise #studying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any vampire lords see the light.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #vampire
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a better scan of a precursor to the "Be Our Guest" segment of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, from Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #beauty and the beast #be our guest #illustration #salad bowl
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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 #all fours #rifle
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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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#religion #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1921 Ole Miss yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #full moon #vintage yearbook #cats #yearbook #night #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 #horse #god #gryphon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #atlas #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #chemistry #ferret #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The mysterious "James T. Dooley" and his bodyguards arrive by helicopter and take over History class.  In the photo on the left, he's pointing his squirt gun at the students.  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#death #skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Martlet Magazine, 1967.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #mountain
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
He gets four seasons' service from his underwear and wants to hear all about yours.  From Collier's, 1915.
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#vintage ad #vintage man #man #smiling man #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An ornate frame (our restoration) from Earlham's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fountain
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Old News (permalink)
"UFOs come in black, yellow and orange."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2005.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #tiger #up a tree
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
The two large clocks at the railway station don't run, but the passengers who trust them have to run if they wish to catch the train.  From The Rio News, March 29, 1892.
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#temporal anomaly #stopped clock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #swan
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July 17, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1873.
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#vintage illustration #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #lizard #medusalizard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger, 1540.
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#vintage illustration #jester #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Witch Must Die by Sheldon Cashdan.
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#witch #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruise of the Happy-Go-Gay by Ursula Moray Willams and illustrated by Gunvor Edwards, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #cat #animals #goat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Within each flower was the tiniest baby."  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 #fairies #flowers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wisconsin Medical Recorder, 1909.
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#vintage illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Twice a Week, 1862.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #haunted #demon #imp #tormented
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1921 Ole Miss yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #camera #illustration #cracked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #wizard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Hauned by the eyes of Alice Cooper.  From Pembroke's 1989 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alice cooper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #giant #illustration #oil wells #oil monster #pig herding #pig farmer #art
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Old News (permalink)
A game of "This Little Piggy" or a Yeti footprint analysis?  Why can't it be both?  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2002.
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#bigfoot #vintage headline #headline #toe
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Old News (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1988 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline #void
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Spirits by David McFadden and illustrated by Greg Curnoe.
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#vintage illustration #spirit animal #animal spirit #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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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#on fire #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Motley Muse by Harry Graham, 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 #animal intelligence #pig #smart animal
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Old News (permalink)
Those in our inner circle (recipients of fabulous prizes) know that we'd agree: anagrams are better than limericks.   From If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
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#anagram #vintage headline #limerick #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This ad is saying that making a long distance telephone call is the same as a piano lesson.  From Together, 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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#vintage ad #vintage photo #piano #ad
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July 16, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"A disgrace to the family."  From Improvement Era, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #up a tree
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Old News (permalink)
You've seen it in the movies, and it really happens: "Muttered love talk in his sleep and aroused suspicion."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#vintage headline #talking in one's sleep #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #garden of eden #fig leaf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bipolar #night and day #day and night #of two minds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1873.
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#vintage illustration #biblical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Old News (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1999.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
Rare to see "gurly," a Scottish word meaning "gurgling," "boisterous," "stormy," and "surly."  "The lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, and gurly grew the sea."  From Story-Telling Ballads by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1920.
   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(
`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #ship #ocean #stormy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cataleptic rigidity.  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #woman #vintage woman #catalepsy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #all fours
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Horses of the sea."  From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
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#vintage illustration #horses #sea horse #white horses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #angel #mythology #genie #djinn #magic #winged #illustration #arabian #jinn #floating city #sultan suleiman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #gnome #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance we didn't realize that there are a dozen people in this photo.  From Pfeiffer's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light and darkness
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Old News (permalink)
It explains those sudden jumps: "Cats pounce on demons."  From The Current Sauce, 1974.
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#demon #cat #vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
What a way to end a story, with the one thing left in the world changing like a kaleidoscope (as the one thing left is wont to do).  From Harpers, 1932.
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#kaleidoscope
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1988 yearbook.

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#mad scientist #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #woman #vintage woman
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July 15, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Strange practices in the night, set to music by the amazing John Palmer:
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#occult #night #music video #video #neons gone mad #john palmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #faceless #no face #wanted poster #1950s
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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 #constellation #bear #ursa major
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Old News (permalink)
"Things are getting weird around here."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2004.
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#weird #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Reaching out after the unattainable."  From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chris Turner, Magician by James Brady and illustrated by Lloyd Coe.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #hat
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #satyr #hybrid #hallowe'en #goat legged #costume #bat costume
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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)
Yes, this counts as a castle in the air.  From North Central's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumen de Lumine, or A New Magicall Light Discovered and Communicated to the World by Thomas Vaughan, 1651.
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#crown #star of david #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #boxing #boxer
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Who Do People Say I Am? by Marvin Meyer, 1983.
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#jesus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #cheating at cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #anthropomorphism #goose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #learning #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
In our experience, it's easier to rhyme streets at 3 a.m. than it is to rhyme streets with "three a.m."  From the apparently quite rare A Street That Rhymed At 3AM by Mark Timlin.
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#faces in things
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Spike & Co., by Graham McCann:

[This is a book about a comedy writers' collective that Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, and others formed in the 1950s, which originally occupied the upper stories above a greengrocer's--so that we have a reference to the "crates of fruit, veg and surplus apostrophes that were blocking the entrance."

[We're told that Frankie Howerd "was forever on the lookout for more comic material 'fresh from the quipperies.'"

[Speaking of Howerd, though we may think of him as saying "ooh-er" when performing, apparently behind the scenes he was a very different man: a man who put the "er" before the "ooh"! One of his colleagues describes him requesting a script polish: "Ah, er, ooh, if you could add, y'know, just a touch here and there."]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #snake #animal attack #cowboy
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Precursors (permalink)
Th earliest instances of "Dog is my copilot" we've found in print go back to the mid-1980s.  A decade earlier, we find, "O.k. Duffy ... let's switch to co-pilot."  From the University of Maine at Machias' 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dog is my copilot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Many with a greed for lucre will follow the goddess Fortune."  From The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells and illustrated by A. D. Blashfield, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #money #fortune #fortuna #goddess
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July 14, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #bear #up a tree
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #vintage christmas #flashlight #light and darkness
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Grace College's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #cigar #bowling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Kentucky's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #jester #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #devil #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of 38 Playboy bunny mascots in Thornton Junior College's 1959 yearbook (a phenomenon that goes unexplained).

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #sunbeam
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I so loved, I returned."  From American University's 1939 yearbook.

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#skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #mushroom #psychedelic #giant mushroom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1988 yearbook.

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#magician #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"I was a teen-age statistic."  From Lighted Pathway, 1969.
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#statistics #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #elf #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #siren
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In a canoe, a back seat driver seems to be in the front.  "Turn this boat 'round!"  From Scribner's, 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 #canoe #rifle
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
Neither of these books exists outside the world of Dark ShadowsA Treatise of White Witches and Study of the Druids' Use of the Supernatural.  From episode 1122.
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#occult #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the high masters forge ahead for you.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #sword
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Shown by appointment."  From Coe College's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1960s #man on a leash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witch's Cat by Ruth Chew.
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#vintage illustration #castle
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July 13, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #rooster #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crow #aesop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How to live dangerously.  From Together, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #dangerous #1950s #bad advice
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Old News (permalink)
"Physically meeting 'dead' people completely changed my life."  From Enigmas, 1993.
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#life after death #necromancy #living dead #afterlife #undead #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we're cautious around drinking fountains.  From St. Nicholas, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #weightless #water
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The bones!  See the bones!"  From Scribner's 1874.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #bones
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy-Folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandies #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Carbonel, The King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh and illustrated by V. H. Drummond.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Maternal cares of the centaur."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #centaur #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #flying horse #winged horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1908 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fiend
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1999.
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#vintage illustration #sphere #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #rat #half animal
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Old News (permalink)
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#snake #vintage headline #headline
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July 12, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #leech
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 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 #night #bridge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #dishes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He cherished it like a child."  From Harper's (1903).

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #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.
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#vintage illustration #occult #darkness #esoteric #heart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning how to shake."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
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#angel
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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 #death #grim reaper #skull face #occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fayetteville State's 1988 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bunny ears
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Facing a non-entity crisis."  From Kansas State's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #faceless #no face #non-entity
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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 Loyola's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #seven dwarfs #snow white
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat Who Thought Too Much by Robin D. Gill.
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#cat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder Makes Me Nervous, by Margaret Scherf:


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"What would Nancy Winslow want with a Constable [painting]? She'd be just as happy with a pineapple soda."
[I'm not sure I've ever heard of a pineapple soda, but it sure sounds funnier than most sodas, even a strawberry soda.]

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"You know a lot of people with low I.Q.s."
"Charlie makes up for Irene. He's a walking statistic."

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Harold closed the Post and opened his large pink face.

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"The solitude here is so crowded."

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[Zeugma dept.]
"Heroic Weldon enters in the nick of time and a Brooks Brothers shirt."

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On three drinks Dick would write a full column about a tomato-can label.
[This joke predates Andy Warhol's soup-can art by about a decade and a half.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fox #bird #hanged
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Reblog if you are rudely awakened by the night mares of poetry and original ideas.  From Phillips University's 1919 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #horse #vintage yearbook #poetry #yearbook #1910s
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Disney's "Soarin'" ride.  "The world itself a vast picture below you as you swing back and forth in the heavens."  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #airplane #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the film Blade Runner.  "I make friends.  They're toys.  My friends are toys.  I make them."  From Hood College's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #blade runner #yearbook
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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 #anthropomorphism #rat #egg
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July 11, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I touched a button and it was the happiest moment of my life."  From Improvement Era, 1930.
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#vintage ad #1930s #ad
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Our track for a Linda Smith tribute album, from back in 2001, finally sees its own music video.
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #linda smith
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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 book #book #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From McGill Daily, Sept. 14, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #illustration #big nose #big ear #eyes on stalks
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait, as both the Man in the Moon and perhaps the cow that jumped over the moon.  From Earlham's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#man in the moon #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #over the moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rabbits #bunnies
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State's 1957 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #automaton #robot #mechanical engineering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #sleeping beauty
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #world costume #earth costume #breaking out
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'One dream, one vision, one hallucination,' said Annan, as he wafted three kisses from his gloved finger-tips in the general direction of Broadway."  From Cosmopolitan (1910).
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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #dandies #vintage men #men #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We forgot that this was old advice, and now all our plans are supposedly coming to fruition in the 1960s.  From Together magazine, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #planning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1874.
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#vintage illustration #fable #anthropomorphism #cat #fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Primer by Walter Hervey & Melvin Hix, and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Thornton Junior College's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #banana peel
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Old News (permalink)
The proof, finally: "Singers aren't all they say."  From The Daily Tar Heel, 1966.
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#vintage headline #singer #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sennacherib.  From Chatterbox, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #beard #king #assyrian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #astrology #mercury #hermes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Friendly Village by Mabel O'Donnell and illustrated by Florence and Margaret Hoopes, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
T is for eagle ... which recalls Sean Tejaratchi's A is for Zebra.  From North Texas State Normal College's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #letter t #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mother Damnable, the remarkable shrew of Kentish Town."  From The Wonderful Magazine and Marvelous Chronicle, 1793.
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#vintage illustration
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July 10, 2022

Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you (unlike some of us) not be allergic to the dust that falls from your dreams.  From The Dust That Falls From Dreams by Louis De Bernières.
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#dreams #dust #airplane
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Old News (permalink)
"Freak fires 'devil's work.'"  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2004.
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#devil #fire #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They fall for fun."  From Together magazine, 1962.
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#falling #skydiving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #sea serpent #octopus #tentacles #devil fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror #life stealer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From See What I Am by Roger Duvoisin, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Valparaiso's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #angel #sacred geometry #god #architect
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #mayan #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1844.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #tied up #face paint
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1892 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #anthropomorphism #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
75741 33806
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#vintage illustration #truth #map #sentence diagram #bigfoot #oklahoma #mystery cat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Great news!  "There is a solution for every problem."  From The Gift of Inner Healing by Ruth Carter Stapleton, 1976
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#problem solving
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A jester plays barber to a winged horse.  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 #silhouette #jester #pegasus #vintage yearbook #scissors #yearbook #winged horse #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Collier's (1919).
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #giant #electricity #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Need more room to store liquor."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#liquor #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #paper chase
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
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#vintage illustration #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #blame #bad advice #victimhood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Crash Magazine, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #gallows #ghoul
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July 9, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Long before the U.S. military's "remote viewing" program, occultists had perfected the technique.  From A Manual of Occultism by Sepharial, 1914.  See our video about how to accomplish remote viewing at home.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram #occult diagram #remote viewing
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
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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 #underwater #animal attack #under the sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There was a picture of a dragon on each plate."  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #dragon #plate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Most all of history contained in a single depiction of someone crossing the something.  From The Outline of Everything by Hector B. Toogood, 1923.  
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#vintage illustration #foot #history
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #horse #ocean #sea #swimming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together magazine, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #dancing #bear #dancing animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #turkey #smart animal
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"What frightens me is the terrible feeling it's going to happen to us again.  Some incredible horror that none of us knows anything about yet."  From Dark Shadows episode 1118.
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#horror #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
We've repeatedly admitted that we're responsible (to our embarrassment) for the odd sounds, but (ironically) no one will listen.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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#vintage headline #headline #odd sound
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The stars."  From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #stars #hand #palmistry #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psychopathy, or Spirit Healing by the spirit of Benjamin Rush, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #aura #esoteric #diagram
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Amateur Photographer & Cinematographer, 1936.
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#cat #vintage photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #pig
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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 #dandies
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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75583 75582
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crow #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The good triumphs over the evil and man reaches for the light of truth, thus beginning the pilgrimage of civilization and education." From Western Michigan's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #masks #pipe smoker #art
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Old News (permalink)
From Woroni, 1975.
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#vintage headline #headline #boring #clone
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July 8, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs) and illustrated by W. Fletcher White, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #native american #fish #iroquois #tiny men #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #bridge #1950s #covered wagon
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#death #dreaming #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The most unrealistic part of this illustration is the idea that a rabbit would grow her own vegetables.  From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myths & Legends of the Australian Aboriginals by William Ramsay Smith, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #aboriginal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hastily explained away."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2005.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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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 #donkey #vintage postcard #texas #state line #new mexico #border #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #door
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Michigan's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare (over $900 on Amazon) Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.
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#vintage illustration #human ladder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #elves #broom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ebiso, Japanese god of luck and fishermen.  From Rockford's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #luck #japanese #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity #good luck #fisherman #ebiso
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Science Fiction Quarterly, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #seeing double
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Upon our first reading of this painful yearbook text, we thought there were books and friends who talked with the president. We now presume that the word "that" is not a relative pronoun, making the talk with the president one of three disquieting things in the world within.  From Anderson's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #caricature #oscar wilde #spinning #twirling #ballerino #you spin me round #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #fish #musical animal #singing fish
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Two snippets from the radio show Much Binding in the Marsh:

***
"Then I was in The Immortal Hour..."
"What part?"
"Twenty past three."

***
[Someone reaching down from the chandelier accidentally dials 666 instead of 999, and instead of Scotland Yard gets Scotland Two Feet.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #bird #boat #albatross
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July 7, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Our source for this was lost in a glitch.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tug of war #vintage men #illustration #men #pants
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Old News (permalink)
Today's message from a crystal ball: "Easier to amuse thousands than it is to amuse one."  From the Duluth Herald, 1913.
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#crystal ball #vintage headline #headline #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Holy Tablets.
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#vintage illustration #pyramid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
So many of us are waiting for the telephone to ring.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1992.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1980.
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#knowledge #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #snow #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elves and Ellefolk by Natalia Balting and illustrated by Gordon Laite.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #king #horse #wee folk #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central'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 #human headed #bird people #harpies #family tree #owl people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic Word Mysteries by Carol Beach York.
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#vintage illustration #seance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winston-Salem's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #guitar #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #big bad wolf #little red riding hood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1924 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ares Magazine No. 15.
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#vintage illustration #demon #statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the trolls be deliberately offensive elsewhere today.  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 #troll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit's 1889 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We love this sort of anthology that seems hell-bent to convince readers that the locality in question is plagued by vampires, werewolves, ghost ships, sea serpents, aliens, flying carpets, and other haunting anomalies.  Every region should have one!  From Strange Maine, illustrated by Peter Farrow.
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#vintage illustration #crow #blackbird #maine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The celebrated French bed of Marie Antoinette, with its magnificent hangings."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear
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July 6, 2022

Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
[Source lost.]
* 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 #vintage ad #mustache #illustration #vintage man #man #sailor #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He didn't mind it so much for the forst 100 times or so, but now it had worked on his Sensibilities until sometimes he feared that he was headed for the Foolish House."  From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 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 #dog #mayhem
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" (Apocalypse Now).  Charlie Chaplin had a horror of "the smell of gasoline in the forenoon."  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #devil #charlie chaplin #gasoline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #door
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
We fact-checked this question.  It's true that all men named Al are called "Big Al," and science is no closer to an explanation than it ever has been.  From Who Cares About Apathy by Ludlow Porch.
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#you can call me al #big al
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #boxing #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars #catamount
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cat Walk by Mary Stolz and illustrated by Erik Blegvad.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #mustache #vintage man #man
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Weakly, insolent and rested" as opposed to "healthy, wealthy and wise."  From The Current Sauce, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sleeping #tired #poem #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #sleeping beauty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sociable Sand Witch by T. L. Sappington, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Providing transportation of minds and spirits to a higher plane."  From Martin Methodist College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light and darkness #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #not pictured
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The Right Word (permalink)
"The spirit of Mooselucmaguntic."  (An alternate spelling of Mooselookmeguntic.)  From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #maine #Mooselookmeguntic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1887 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache #card game #card player #solitaire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Iowa State Teachers College's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #audience
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Something missing from her great blue eyes."
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to a different scan of the frontispiece to Friday the 13th by Thomas W. Lawson, 1907.

Two scans of the frontispiece to Friday the 13th by Thomas W. Lawson, 1907
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#gif #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State College's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dragon #horse #night
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July 5, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #city
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The Right Word (permalink)
Given inflation, $13 in 1927 is more like $200 today.  From Purple Parrot, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #mannequin
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #lion
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Old News (permalink)
"We know something happened.  We just don't know what it was."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2002.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ancient egypt #egypt #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #dog #cerberus #two-headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Winds of a Deal by Latta Griswold, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #tennis #vintage men #men
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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 The Unruly Robin, written and illustrated by Dorathea Dankovszky.
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#vintage illustration #bird #robin
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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 #rooster #mouse #saw
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #fairy tale #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sleeping beauty #spinning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh, fairy godmother!  I wanted you so."  From A Modern Cinderella by Amanda Minnie Douglas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cinderella #fairy godmother
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The guitar club's logo features a banjo.  From Beloit's 1889 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #banjo
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question.  "Have you kissed your brain goodbye?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #brain #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "On Buying Old Books," in There's Pippins and Cheese to Come, by Charles Brooks:
Perhaps my sluggishness toward first editions...comes in part from the acquaintance with a man who in a linguistic outburst as I met him, pronounced himself to be a numismatist and philatelist. One only of these names would have satisfied a man of less conceit. It is as though the pteranodon should claim also to be the spoon-bill dinosaur.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The crown returns to the queen of the fishes."  From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 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 #mermaid #queen #under the sea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #heart #crying animal #broken hearted
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Now, my friend, you can become as rich as you please."  From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #wealth #wizard #money
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Sandman: His Bunny Stories by Harry Whittier Frees, 1918.
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#anthropomorphism #rabbit
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July 4, 2022

Old News (permalink)
The age that birds marry is a good enough topic, though we were more interested in knowing how birds handle "empty nest syndome."  From Rod and Gun in Canada, 1914.
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#bird #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How can a long-running horror-themed TV series keep topping itself?  It must address the most existential angst of all: nothingness.  Though Seinfeld touted itself as the first show about nothing, decades earlier Dark Shadows boldly dedicated hundreds of episodes to spine-chilling nihility. 
Perhaps it all started with a memo, that an empty envelope is just as good as a letter:
The empty envelop naturally led to the horror of empty coffins ...
... and empty rooms ...
... and entirely empty houses ...
... in which the eeriest thing of all may be that there's no one at the window ...
... no one at all!
[To be continued.  That's right: there's more on nothing.]
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#dark shadows
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Thanks to Oliver, who writes: "It seems recently with every new track you release, I have to slightly adjust my personal favourites of your music yet again. To be just briefly personal, these songs have genuinely helped with my anxiety and other issues ever since I discovered your music some 4 or 5 odd months ago. When I talk about how soothing it feels, I mean it. Something about the way you produce songs is just, dream-like. Sometimes I'll even listen to your softer songs to help myself sleep. That's not an insult btw, it's probably one of the most genuine compliments that I can give you. Your music really just, helps me. I don't really know how else to express it aside from 'thank you', though that might sound a bit odd."
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#music video #video #neons gone mad #kylie minogue
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pet walker #bureaucrat #paperwork #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astrocats by Julia Harris.
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#vintage illustration #cat #starry night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
They've built upon the classic "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil," with a fourth figure presumably not smelling or perhaps not tasting evil.  From Calvin College's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #see no evil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil #earth #end of the world #apocalypse #blood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Barnes Readers, Book One, First Year-Second Half by Herman Dressel, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fox #gingerbread man
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Iowa State Teachers College's 1955 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #women #vintage women #1950s #beanie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Spiderland by R. A. Ellis, 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 #spider #spiderweb
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
When was the last time you dreamed of a cyclops?  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 #cyclops #symbol #one-eyed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Epaminodas.  From Chatterbox, 1893.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #serpent #snake #shield #Epaminodas
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Old News (permalink)
"Desperate combat with wounded rodent."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#animal attack #vintage headline #rodent #headline
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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 #rat
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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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goats by Frank Wright Noxon, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
They don't teach this sort of math anymore.  From Purdue's 1893 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #lion #human faced #mathematics #math
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Old News (permalink)
Q: "Afraid to bleach linens?"
A: The fear eats away at us.
From Improvement Era, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #bleach #ad
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July 3, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mill That Charles Built, A New Game of Forfeits, 1820.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #parrot #illustration #1820s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Apollo does not always keep his bow bent. —Horace."  From William and Mary's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #lyre #Apollo #horace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pet walker #walking the cow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pyramid Power by Max Toth & Greg Nielsen.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #pyramid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit's 1889 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #big head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flies #fly swatter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bucknell's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #time #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One of many ways to say that you don't want the gruel.  From Chatterbox, 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #full moon #wolf #howling at the moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Past Eight O'Clock by Joan Aiken and illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #dragon #castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Today I wasn't sure if I really counted or not."  From Franklin College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#shadow #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Begone Satan! by Carl Vogl, 1935.
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#religion #satan #vintage book #book #exorcism #demonic possession
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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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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#saint #vintage book #book #nun #incorruptible
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ornamental design
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #long exposure #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blurred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1982.
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#bigfoot
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July 2, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mr. Crowley amuses himself with the sawdust."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crutches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ant
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This goes a long way toward explaining sub-par live entertainment: perhaps the key players couldn't get tickets to their own show.  It also sheds light on the artists who "sell out" -- did they compromise their integrity, or did they merely attain enough fame to get shut out of their own careers?  From the [DuPage] Courier, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #jester #sold out #selling out
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The escape of the milkweed fairies."  From Primary Education, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #milkweed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #caryatids
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #hydra #many headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hefty price tag on this rare book!  Nine Lives, The Folklore of Cats by Katharine Mary Briggs, 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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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reading Time Stories by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Great news: your astral self in the future cannot be killed.  From Dark Shadows episode 849.
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#astral body #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #transformation #fish
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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 #big mouth #monocle #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Time and Tigers by D. R. Amato.  See also How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #cat people
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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 The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #rooster #bagpipes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
80s fashion seems a world away.  From Missouri Southern's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Posing with a picture of the devil, on the front page of The Current Sauce, 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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#devil #vintage photo #women #vintage women
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1895 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #dragon #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you have an 'I have to do it all' problem"?  From Lighted Pathway, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #responsibility #headline #getting things done
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Old News (permalink)
"Fillet of soul."  From Improvement Era, 1946..
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#vintage illustration #king #power #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #pickle #archie mcphee #video #penetralia #yodeling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The planets on the wrinkles of the forehead.  From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #physiognomy #diagram #forehead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #mouse #mousetrap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A folktale about a bat who writes poetry: The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 the [Swarthmore] Eunomian, 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 #skinny #limerick #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #chair #1920s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1942.
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#light and dark #toys #glow in the dark
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#demon #demonization
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sphinx and the Rainbow by David Loye.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #brain
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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 #silhouette #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twenty-two Goblins by Arthur W. Rider, 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 #mermaid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #faces in things #mushroom people
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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 #satyr #unicorn #flying machine #pan #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Normal School for Women's 1916 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 #parasol #the end #woman #vintage woman
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"We are all here."  From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#cat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Missouri Southern's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #conehead #1980s #marching band
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
De-mesmerizing with a handkerchief.  From How to Mesmerise: A Manual of Instruction in the History, Mysteries, Modes of Procedure, and Arts of Mesmerism, or, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, Clairvoyance, Thought Reading, and Mesmeric Entertainment by Hames Coates, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #handkerchief
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hades
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #rabbit
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