CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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July 31, 2023

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Picture Show, 1930.
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#witch #cauldron #sorceress #1930s #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Be free of crippling leg sores."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Man Stanley by Philip Hamburger.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tight pants
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #crow #bird #red sky
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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 #lion #aesop
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A witch's wishing mirror from Cornwall.  From Witchcraft for Tomorrow by Doreen Valiente.
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#witch #witchcraft #mirror #vintage photo #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #pitchfork #walking the dog #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sophocles the Hyena by Jim Moran and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #mouse #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Painting the birds.  From The Mythology of All Races, Vol. VII, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #bird #painter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Erskine College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spiral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #numbers #sixteen
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #wordplay #cheese #1940s #faceless #joke #no face
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Old News (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1945 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #electricity #headline #electric shock #high voltage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #ogre #three headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, have kaleidoscopic eyes that magnify your imperfections whenever the sun is out.  From the University of Arkansas' 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #kaleidoscope #imperfect
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #smart animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Wesleyan College (Macon GA) yearbook of 1932.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #nymphs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"John Ludwig, the peasant astronomer."  From Chatterbox, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage men #men #astronomer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #heart
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator Ewan Nicholas spotted these mismatched clocks in Aberdeen.  He determined that the clocks aren't wrong.  Rather, "time takes five minutes to travel between them."
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#temporal anomaly #clock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas State College for Women's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#horse #vintage illustration
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July 30, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Who wants a chest of diamonds?  Anybody's for the finding."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage headline #diamond #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 #bear #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Two [trapped] miners had lived by eating a few candles."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #animal attack #under the sea #tentacles #submarine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #bow and arrow #archer #hunter #nursery rhyme
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Good for him: "He's brimful of vitality.  Wine is helping him to success."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage man #man #smiling man #vitality #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 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 #king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great and Good, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage book #book #symbolism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1989.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny #cheese #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #giraffe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythology of All Races, Vol. VII, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology #harpy #hybrid #human headed #bird people #bird woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon University's 1987 yearbook.

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

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#witch #halloween #shakespeare #macbeth #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Serenade to a Lonely Crocodile."  From Purple Parrot, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#crocodile #vintage photo #1940s #musician #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Amherst College's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Three ways to say 'stop!'"  From Peace News, 1958.
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#no means no #vintage headline #stop #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#falling #vintage yearbook #1970s #stairs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare to see a cornucopia of phonographs.  From The Talking Machine World, 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 #vintage ad #phonograph #cornucopia #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Though it's impossible to see him due to his clever camouflage, there's a brickmason in each of these photographs.  From Frankfort Pilgrim College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1940s #camouflage #brick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Serapina by Anne White and illustrated by Tony Palazzo.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #vintage book
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #sea monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This is so typical of the disgusting anthropomorphism rampant in these old magazines.  They quote a hedgehog as saying, "We are very fat and lazy."  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hedgehog
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July 29, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 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 #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare We Married An Englishman by Ruth and Helen Hoffman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #deer
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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 #finis #the end #turtle #aesop #tortoise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Apollo, from History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes of Antiquity by William Sheldon, 1816.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #deity #Apollo
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Old News (permalink)
"If you are like a lot of your friends then you might be an authentic snob.  You think you are 'enlightened, tolerant, and more or less groovy.'"  From The Gateway, 1969.
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#vintage headline #snob #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #vision #halo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a bit of advice from the devil: "Wait till tomorrow."  From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #prophecy #illustration #bad advice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1917 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #pen and ink #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ink pen #editor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #zoology #people who look like animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #whale #question mark #diving bell
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Old News (permalink)
From Recovery From Hell by Steve Nixon.
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#hell #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Photo-Play Journal, 1917.
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#vintage photo #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Tired eyelids made of darkness.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Dentistry's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Why America is eating more 'grass.'"  From Improvement Era, 1941.
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#vintage headline #headline #grass
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It may be ever so merry and gay, this place where we go at the close of each day; but we're thankful it's only the Resting Place here of to-day and not of to-morrow to fear."  From Heidelberg University's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tombstone #poem
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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 #night #native american
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July 28, 2023

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Why we can't trust carbon dating.  Neons Gone Mad remixes Symmetry Netwerk.
Thanks to Mark Mori, who said, "It's a beautiful tribute to the light of the darkness. The voice is sublime! You have captured the emotion and the beauty of this magical moment."
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #symmetry netwerk #carbon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #illustration #imaginary animal #lulop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #oz #sunglasses #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage magazine #cat in a hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat #manx
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Golden Rod, 1938.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #sun #snowman #winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From And the Sphinx Spoke by Paul Eldridge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage book #book
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From 1909, via UpNorthMemories.
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#fish #fishing #giant fish #vintage postcard #bass #giant bass #postcard
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Old News (permalink)
"Riddle of 'cigar' in night sky."  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 2007.
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#ufo #cigar #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #cat #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lighted Pathway, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #badger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
People who look like other's people's dogs.  From Purple Parrot, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #walking the dog #pet walker #people who look like animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Amherst College's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #harpy #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human faced #bird man #owl man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Very strange ... when the moon is full I have started to crave oysters!"  From Science Fiction Review no. 51.
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#vintage illustration #vampire #fangs #tusks
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Old News (permalink)
From The Havoc of a Smile by L. B. Walford, 1890.
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#smile #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Miscellaneous snippets from Saki:

[from "The Seventh Pullet"]
“The potato that weighed just over two pounds,” said his friend Gorworth.
“Did I tell you about that?” said Blenkinthrope; “I was telling the others in the train this morning.  I forgot if I’d told you.”
“To be exact you told me that it weighed just under two pounds, but I took into account the fact that abnormal vegetables and freshwater fish have an after-life, in which growth is not arrested.”

***
[from "The Dreamer"]
Cyprian was a boy who carried with him through early life the wondering look of a dreamer, the eyes of one who sees things that are not visible to ordinary mortals, and invests the commonplace things of this world with qualities unsuspected by plainer folk—the eyes of a poet or a house agent.

***
[from "On Approval"]
She knew a newspaper correspondent, a young man who ate bortsch with the air of having invented it.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Dentistry's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dentist #bitten #wounded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review* of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
*In the tradition of the great Charles Fort (even to coverage of frogs raining from the sky), the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977) collects eye-witness accounts of highly unusual natural phenomena beyond the reach of scientific explanation.  Square lunar haloes, multiple moons, kaleidoscopic suns, tornadoes with luminous clouds within their funnels, rocket lightning, massive pillars of light on the horizon, auroral "meteors," clouds radiating streams of lights like fireworks, mountain peaks that emit lightning and toss electric globes to one another, space fireflies, will-o'-the-wisps and ghost lights, phosphorescent wheels at sea, six rainbows at once, visible sound waves, sideways mirages, ghost echoes on the earth-moon path, conical snowflakes, slow-falling hail, black snow, fatal fogs, cloud arches, forked waterspouts and clouds connected by horizontal waterspouts, steam devils, "fog guns" or mistpouffers, musical thunder and musical snowflakes, non-lunar tides, rains of sand eels and turtles and toads and spider webs, and manna and brimstone from heaven.  The lavishly illustrated handbook illuminates a world so vastly bizarre that one could easily be convinced it addressed a distant planet and not our own.
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#snow #vintage illustration
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July 27, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "The Van Ness Family" by Edna A. Needles, in The Children's Book, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #dollhouse #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"I woke up with a teardrop in my eye."  From Cash Box, 1946.
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#crying #vintage headline #headline #teardrop
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator William Murphy shares this photo of a famous clock in the Shandon area of Cork City, known to Corkonians as "The Four Faced Liar" on account of the time being slightly different on each face during the hour.
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#temporal anomaly #clock tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross, 1868.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #teepee #canada
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fireworks #firecracker #rooftop
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"You will sleep. Sleep, sleep, sleep."  From Dark Shadows episode 1194.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#occult #hypnotism #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #aesop
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Old News (permalink)
"'You'll find out' from chemicals."  From Toike Oike, 1924.
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#vintage headline #chemicals #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fishing with a tuba.  From Harper's, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fishing #musician #tuba
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Revisiting this advice, in poem form, for avoiding rattlesnakes in the desert.  From Martlet Magazine, 1966.
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#snake #poem #rattlesnake #bad advice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Finish -- but please don't stop."  From Erskine College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #spanking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #falling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #aurora borealis #1940s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Navy News, 1957.
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#cat #hammock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dentist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Sidney H. Meteyard, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #beard #wizard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"What evil is in my hand?"  From Winthrop University's 1898 yearbook.  See Crossroads Chiromancy: The Secrets of the Glowing Red Hands.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #palm reading #palmistry #illustration #chiromancy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1876.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #cauldron
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baseball #illustration #levitating hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #lion #animal fight
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July 26, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Complaints are bitter."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Good for him: "I never felt fitter in my life."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fitness #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eve's Daughters, illustrated by Arthur Learned, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #1900s #jewelry #hat pin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The red-headed doll is in his throat."  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#coyote #vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Newspaper fashion from The Gateway, 1966.
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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #1960s #newspaper dress #newspaper fashion #newspaper clothing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #wee folk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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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 #fashion #vintage fashion #hoop skirt #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #vintage automobile #automobile #chivalry
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a possible ancestor of Alfred E. Neuman, named Stackman.  From Amherst College's 1896 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long neck #alfred e. neuman
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Old News (permalink)
If you ever wondered where unsentimental couples honeymoon, here's the answer.  From The Unromantic Castle by John Summerson.
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#castle #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Syndey's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"This is the house that Jack built. Find the rat that ate the malt, the cat, the dog, the cow, the maid, the man, and the parson." From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #house that jack built #hidden picture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pillow #pillow 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 #hybrid #centaur #half horse #ipotane
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #money #vintage yearbook #yearbook #money bags
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Old News (permalink)
"It wasn't that I needed a coat, but this one was all golden and glowing."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Adjusting for inflation, an income of $10,000 in 1913 is over $300,000 today.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #money #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dollar sign #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sword #excalibur #king arthur #lady of the lake #illustration
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July 25, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Nature is not blind.  Why she limits the powers of some of her children."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage headline #mother nature #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 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 illustration #compass
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dry Goods Review, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 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 illustration #harpy #bat man #bird man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Druidism: The Ancient Faith of Britain by Dudley Wright, 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 #monolith #stone circle #stonehenge
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Old News (permalink)
"Librarians are changing image.  'Ssh' is out and mini-skirts in for library science."  From The Gateway, 1968.
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#librarian #1960s #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #owl #anthropomorphism #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 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 #elf #pixie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It's little wonder people don't have nine lives."  From Catawba College's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amherst College's 1896 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 #yearbook #medusa #gorgon #snake hair
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's how to fit two pianos into a tight space.  From Music for More than One Piano by Maurice Hinson.
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#vintage illustration #piano #vintage book #book #overlap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No, no, sleep again."  From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1825.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Stern College for Women's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #moses #biblical #burning bush
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 #elephant #tarzan
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Season in the Sun, by Wolcott Gibbs:

"For the love of Pete's sake, Daddy!"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat #snow #winter #goatherd
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
There's no time for ...
  • dillydallying
  • crying
  • changing your mind
  • waiting
  • chit-chat
  • repentance
  • deliberation
  • grudges
  • hesitation
  • subtleties
  • fussing and fighting
  • cuckoo clocks
  • extracurricular activities
  • diplomacy
  • flourishes
  • buts
  • do-overs
  • sorrow
  • feelings
  • slumber
  • dessert
  • goldbricking
  • idle brooding
  • civility
  • pity
  • distractions
  • daydreaming
  • second chances
  • feeling sorry
  • cuddling
  • the news
  • grand exits
[tidbits gathered through the course of our research]
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#list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes by Harrison Adams and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 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 #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eclipse #dandelion clock
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July 24, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 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 #elf #fairy tale #crying #spinning wheel #Rumpelstiltskin #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 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 #goat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Picture Show, 1931.
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#crystal ball #1930s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman
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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 #twins #constellation #gemini #castor and pollux
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Strange Dreams (permalink)

"He sometimes toyed with the fancy that the genii had awakened him with the express purpose of showing him the beauty of the desert night, a beauty baffling description, and which alone, it seemed to him, was worth the journey hither."  From This Labyrinthine Life, A Tale of the Arizona Desert by George Alexander Fischer, 1907.

If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #insomnia #starry night #night #desert #can't sleep
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghost rockets over sweden."  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 2009.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #ghost rocket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An incredibly rare rhyme: "Sir Rojer de Romily Rose / Had at least sixty-five suits of clothes. / His cravats of all styles / Measured miles upon miles / While his ruffles and frills / Goodness knows!"  From St. Nicholas, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #underwater #mermaid #under the sea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1950 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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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 #magician #sea monster #mesmerism #hypnotist #nessie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From San Angelo College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #ram #yearbook #costume #mascot #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
The problem with headlines asking you for the time is that you have to write a letter to the editor in order to respond that you have no idea because you don't wear a watch.  From Lighted Pathway, 1964.
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#time #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Virginia Military Institute's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Box of Delights by John Masefield, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #sword #mouse
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From MacMurray College's 1968 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 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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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hanged man #noose #1960s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #artist #caveman
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Old News (permalink)
"Believed in a 'hobo heaven.'  Bums will have paradise of own, creed of dead sailor."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#heaven #hobo #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
From Newton Junior College's 1962 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Where the stream runs blue."  From The Sandman: His Songs and Rhymes by Jenny Wallis, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tree #stream
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July 23, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if shepherds write with sheep pens."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #shepherd #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goose #nursery rhyme
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Bombay Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #balm #ad
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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 #woodsman #snake #aesop #ax
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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 #reading #book #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Previous experience may prove harmful."  From Current Sauce, 1970.
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#vintage headline #headline #experience
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #cat #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythology of All Races, Vol. VII, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fashion #vintage fashion #lingerie #skinny model
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Saskatchewan's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #graffiti #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #passed out #after the party #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 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 #anthropomorphism #spider #spider web #fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Central Missouri State University's 1967 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage man
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I can handle all the problems that come to me directly, but not those over which I have no control."  From Dark Shadows episode 7.
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#dark shadows #problem solving
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College'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 #book #drill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We're disinclined to stick our faces through broken windows, lest there be a fold in the fabric of space-time.  From Chatterbox, 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 #broken window
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The American Claimant, by Mark Twain:

THE WEATHER IN THIS BOOK.

No weather will be found in this book. This is an attempt to pull a book through without weather. It being the first attempt of the kind in fictitious literature, it may prove a failure, but it seemed worth the while of some dare-devil person to try it, and the author was in just the mood.
Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather. Nothing breaks up an author’s progress like having to stop every few pages to fuss-up the weather. Thus it is plain that persistent intrusions of weather are bad for both reader and author.
Of course weather is necessary to a narrative of human experience. That is conceded. But it ought to be put where it will not be in the way; where it will not interrupt the flow of the narrative. And it ought to be the ablest weather that can be had, not ignorant, poor-quality, amateur weather. Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article of it. The present author can do only a few trifling ordinary kinds of weather, and he cannot do those very good. So it has seemed wisest to borrow such weather as is necessary for the book from qualified and recognized experts—giving credit, of course. This weather will be found over in the back part of the book, out of the way. See Appendix. The reader is requested to turn over and help himself from time to time as he goes along.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #pumpkinhead #oz #pumpkin head
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July 22, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sharing Experiences by McKee & McCowen and illustrated by Corinne Malvern & Sylvia Haggander, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I will soon make you almost as beautiful as I am myself."  (Note the "Before and After" poster on the wall.) From The Voyage of the Wishbone Boat by Alice C. D. Riley, 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 #anthropomorphism #hippo #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Robbed by bandit garbed as a ghost."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
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#sheet ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator William Murphy notes that he 1867 Tait clock tower in Limerick does not keep time ... but we might prefer to say that the clock is "stuck" on an eternal four thirty and that it is indeed correct twice a day.
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#ireland #clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A book dead-icated to all the cats that ever meowed on this or any sphere, from the beginning of time till now, to all cats still to come, to the nine ghosts of departed cats and their relatives, and to all who like some sort of cat.  From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 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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#cat #book dedication
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"O.K. God, so strike me dead."  From Current Sauce, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #atheism #lightning
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #practical joke #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bryn Mawr College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #chemistry #1930s #bottled ghost #test tube
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #giant tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #holland #windmill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From An Alphabet of Old Friends by Walter Crane, 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 #alphabet #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrews Presbyterian College's 1967 yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #screech owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #orchestra #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Two umbrellas, just in case.  From Wartburg College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #umbrella #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1940s #doll #living toy #toy #living doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A strange, sibilant hiss seemed to emanate from this party as Photograph Phil entered."  From The Deadwood Dick Library, 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 #secret society #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mirror #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Ever throw a knife at a blonde?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #circus #vintage headline #knife thrower #headline
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July 21, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"British mermaids give up 'old duds.'"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
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#mermaid #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mouse's Tail by Helen Pettes and illustrated by Julia Greene, 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 #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The strenuous you."  From Wheaton College's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mouse #oz #1890s #tin woodman #mouse queen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 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 #falling #fireman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Charon, from History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes of Antiquity by William Sheldon, 1816.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #underworld #cerberus #charon #ferryman #styx #hades #1810s
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"The best things happen when you least expect them."  From The Gateway, 1968.
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#vintage ad #surprise #1960s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A rabbit on stilts.  From Western State Normal School's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #humor #animal mask #animal headed #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #pegasus #winged horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the U.S. Air Force Academy's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage man #crosseyed #dart board
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #crocodile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Taught by a ghost.  From James Millikin University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #classroom #teacher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 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 #anthropomorphism #crown #faces in things #potato #mr. potato head #1920s #potato king
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book" (Shakespeare, As You Like It).  From Barnard College's 1897 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #heart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Charles Viewer, 1981.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe #tarot #death card #1980s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The She-Wolf," by Saki:

***
Leonard returned to his home circle garrulous about his Russian strike experiences, but oppressively reticent about certain dark mysteries, which he alluded to under the resounding title of Siberian Magic.  The reticence wore off in a week or two under the influence of an entire lack of general curiosity.

***
“I wish you would turn me into a wolf, Mr. Bilsiter,” said his hostess at luncheon the day after his arrival.
“My dear Mary,” said Colonel Hampton, “I never knew you had a craving in that direction.”
“A she-wolf, of course,” continued Mrs. Hampton; “it would be too confusing to change one’s sex as well as one’s species at a moment’s notice.”
“I don’t think one should jest on these subjects,” said Leonard.
“I’m not jesting, I’m quite serious, I assure you.  Only don’t do it to-day; we have only eight available bridge players, and it would break up one of our tables.  To-morrow we shall be a larger party.  To-morrow night, after dinner—”

***
“If our hostess has really vanished out of human form,” said Mrs. Hoops, “none of the ladies of the party can very well remain.  I absolutely decline to be chaperoned by a wolf!”
“It’s a she-wolf,” said Clovis soothingly.
The correct etiquette to be observed under the unusual circumstances received no further elucidation.  The sudden entry of Mary Hampton deprived the discussion of its immediate interest.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Navaho Religion Vol. II by Gladys A. Reichard.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #diagram #navaho
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Old News (permalink)
"The sleepless.  Hundred and one noises keep her continuously awake from morning to morning."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#insomnia #sleepless #vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We thought this band name was a Googlewhack, until we finally realized that it's two band names.  From the University of Mary Washington's 1991 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #band name
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #jack-in-the-box #illustration #living toy
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July 20, 2023

Old News (permalink)
You've heard of both the war on Christmas and "Christmas in July," and it all began July 20, 1941.  "War comes to the North Pole."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#vintage christmas #christmas #north pole #vintage headline #war on christmas #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #tibetan
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Old News (permalink)
If you suspected this is how the news works, you were right.  "Headlines we had left over."  From Toike Oike, 1951.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It sounds so inspirational, to encourage folks to make new paths, but had the science club consulted with the forestry club, they might have learned that forging new trails in the woods is disorienting and dangerous.  Another science fail!  From St. Joseph's 1995 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #forest #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bad advice
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Old News (permalink)
"Aim for the stars but resolve for the moon."  From Lighted Pathway, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #moon #vintage headline #headline #bad advice #aim for the stars
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bryn Mawr College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Edna Walter and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Dartmouth College's 1970 yearbook.
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#cemetery #graveyard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rapids #canoe #river
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Three law books are way heavier than a bull possibly named Ben.  From Wake Forest College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bull #scales #law
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy Who Won by Fannie E. Ostrander and illustrated by R. Farrington Elwell, 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 #ice #rescue #thin ice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wartburg College's 1920 yearbook.  WAHSA 1920_0085

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cloud #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sorrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #laughter #1920s #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the [Lambuth] Lantern, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #snake woman #rattlesnake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gossip #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 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 #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lance was still thinking of his mother."  From Chatterbox, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dandy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I have waited one whole hour, yet I am still — all alone."  From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #loneliness #yearbook #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Why not picture yourself."  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1960s #illustration #ad
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July 19, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Listening to a speck in the sky."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When hams discuss 'optimum spacing' in single band beams."  From 73 Magazine, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1960s #vintage headline #illustration #headline #ad #ham radio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare History and Poetry of Finger-Rings by Charles Edwards, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #occult #hybrid #janus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When knighthood was in flower."  From Purple Parrot, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blindfolded #hazing
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Awake while other sleep!"  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #insomnia #sleepless #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Good news -- the world isn't quite ready to go to the dogs.  From James Millikin University's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Kitten and Her Friends by Marshall Saunders and illustrated by Diantha Horne Marlowe, 1913.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #hand #1920s #greek letters
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"Find Nelson."  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #ship #hidden picture #shipyard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Buddhism has a New Testament, too.  From The New Testament of Higher Buddhism by Timothy Richard, 1910.
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#buddhism #vintage book #book #new testament
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Edinboro State Teachers College'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 #lighthouse #tower #ex libris #bookplate
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Old News (permalink)
Six moths are hidden in this picture.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #jumping #candle #1900s #vintage headline #moth #headline #jack be nimble #hidden pictures
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Rain is coming down.  People with little islands of roof over their heads.  Someone without a roof, invite him in — a good day to meet."  From Eastern Mennonite College's 1973 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#rainy day #umbrella
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #drunk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1941 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Dr. Hoffman: "I'll give you a stronger sedative next time." 
Victoria Winters: "Do you have one that can stop dreams?" 
From Dark Shadows episode 462.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#nightmare #dreams #dark shadows #sedative
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #nonsense #poem
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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 #egyptian #serpent #deity
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July 18, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #snowman #winter #living dead #snowmen #rest in peace
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This line was on the same page as the image, so we paired them.  From Purple Parrot, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #graveyard #living dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#death #skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #overalls #coveralls #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant hand #vintage yearbook #pepper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When folks say, "That's life!" they're referring to this particular knight.  From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #that's life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #musical animal #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #piggyback #vintage yearbook #yearbook #piggy back
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Architecture, Mysticism and Myth by W. R. Lethaby, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #dome
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Shills Can't Cash Chips, by A. A. Fair

***
"You know I go to bed early and read myself to sleep. I--"
"Read yourself awake."

***
"It's new, modern and the service is fine....Yet the rates aren't up in high C."

***
"Can you look expectant, Donald?"
"I don't know," I said. "When I've been expectant I've never looked at myself."

***
"She didn't identify the man, she identified the mustache."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #robot #mechanical monster #mechanization
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1918 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From ...And You Think You've Got It Bad by Barbara Fairchild Gramm.
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#vintage headline #headline #got it bad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Weather man is afraid day is going to be pleasant.  Duluthians will enjoy it if his fears are correct."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #cupid #weather #1900s #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #cat people #cat headed #illustration #basketball #bobcat
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Old News (permalink)
"Is your dog the boss?"  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1956.
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#dog #vintage headline #headline
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July 17, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #blindfolded #riding blind
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFA Folio, 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 illustration #earth #wind
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #king #snake #illustration #penguin #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Minnesota's 1921 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 #walking the dog #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scissor Pictures by Ethel Barr, 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 #silhouette #rat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And this was the year that it was good to rest."  From Berea College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #exhausted #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The days won't be monotonous any longer, she thought."  From Purple Parrot, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1930s #monotony #woman #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
"Have your brains aged to custard?"  From The Gateway, 1976.
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#brain #vintage headline #headline #custard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The reason sprinters bend over -- they're pushed down by the athletic spirit.  From James Millikin University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #runner #sprinter #athlete
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Most Wonderful House in the World by Mary Haviland, 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 #anthropomorphism #food
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Female Seminary's 1893 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "Bewitched" by J. T. C. (1972).
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spiritualism #seance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #big hair #vintage fasion #fasion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #writer #james joyce
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fame and Fortune Weekly, 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 #statue #gem #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 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 #sword #halo #jesus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #grasshopper #insects #bugs #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
(Markers for film reels.)  From Motion Picture News, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #pencil #1910s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts' 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Alligator versus crocodile in the dark.  Which do you wager for the win?  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#crocodile #alligator #animal fight #vintage headline #headline
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July 16, 2023

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #ex libris #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mink versus hamster: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #animal fight #illustration #mink #hamster
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Old News (permalink)
"Lots to think of."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.  
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #automaton #oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The foxes and the wolf."  From Chatterbox, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #fox #scales
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Are there people living on Mars?"  From The Stars and Their Mysteries by Charles R. Gibson, 1916.
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#life on mars #mars #martian
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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 #world #earth #map #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Gogmagog, The Buried Gods by T. C. Lethbridge.
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#vintage illustration #goddess #hill figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #bicycle #elves #brownies #penny parthing
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
They joke when they huddle.  From Purple Parrot, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #football #huddle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook #knife
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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 #serpent #anthropomorphism #horse #levitation #hybrid #human headed #snake charmer #diplomacy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Joplin Junior College's 1954 yearbook.

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#mummy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costumes #clothesline #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Edna Walter and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #mother goose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marian College's 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #rabbit #musical animal #window display #costume #1960s
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #astrology #virgo
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Old News (permalink)
"Vegetables used as missiles."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.
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#missile #vintage headline #vegetable #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories of Big Animals by Lenore Elizabeth Mulets, 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 #stag #deer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's mouse enjoying a lion costume is from Loyola University's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #mouse #lion costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 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 #flying machine #snow
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July 15, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Words fly round the earth."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Easy Growth In Reading Workbook to Accompany I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Roy, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cow #bear #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Here are my mother's knives and forks."  From Indoor and Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls by Lina & Adelia Beard, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fingers #hands
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #goddess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #torch
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1926 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 #piano #vintage yearbook #muse #yearbook #pianist #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 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 #owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #church #vintage yearbook #yearbook #venice #santa maria della salute
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hidden WItchery by Nigel Tourneur and decorated by Will Mein, 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 #castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #time flies #tempus fugit
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Old News (permalink)
"Phantoms stalked the room."  From The Satan Trap by Martin Ebon.
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#ghost #phantom #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #courtroom #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anaconda #snake #animal attack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #faces in things #knitting #yarn ball
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Old News (permalink)
"What you can do about cake failure."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1952.
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#baking #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Another Part of the Forest by Lillian Hellman.
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#vintage illustration #devil #monster #forest #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Clown and the Crocodile by Joseph McLelland.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #crocodile #clown
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Jim and Judy by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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July 14, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Am I smarter than a fourth grader?  
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You can get a dictionary too, for only a dime!"  From Improvement Era, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dictionary #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #frog #test tube
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst'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 #donkey #jackass #before and after
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Protecting his other eardrum.  From Purple Parrot, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gun #suicide #russian roulette
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #throne #oz #1890s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Thornton College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bookworm #1960s #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The dryad maidens."  From The Voyage of the Wishbone Boat by Alice C. D. Riley, 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 #tree spirit #hollow tree #dryad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It isn't any trouble just to l-a-u-g-h!"  From Hollins College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #dog #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #laughter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's upside down cat silhouette is from Toike Oike, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #upside down
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #cathedral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rheims
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A "palm" tree, possibly.  From Wesleyan magazine, 1956.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tree #hand #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Berea College's 1936 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 Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #chicken #rooster #mouse
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Huckleberry Fiend, by Julie Smith:

[Who Needs Context? dept.]
the theory that man is decended from the dough of an anchovy pizza
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#pizza
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 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 #lantern #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The eternal everyday."  From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke, 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 #jester #plough
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #musical animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #boxing #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #fist fight #men fighting #sparta
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Old News (permalink)
"Hysteria makes him short-legged."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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July 13, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The wing-finger flying."  From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 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 #pterodactyl #dinosaur #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"When nobody listened."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Henny Youngman's paraprosdokian "Take my wife, please!"  It's "Here, fellow, will you have a wife?"  From Stories of Early England by Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #long hair #take my wife
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Unintuitive advice from Dark Shadows: brandy gets your life in order, tea is restful, coffee calms the nerves, sedatives are called for when there's nothing wrong, and taking your medicine will get people to stop staring at you.  However, gypsy herbs aren't prescribed willy nilly.  From episodes 881, 887, 897, 339, 791, 825, and 466.
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#dark shadows #bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lighter weight than a fire hydrant costume.  From Purple Parrot, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #costume #tree costume #dog catcher
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1918 yearbook.  Compare to this one.

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

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#anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Saved from a blinding blizzard by a whiff of wood smoke.  From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #smoke #polar #blizzard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ball State University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teacher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Night Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by C. M. Burd & Violet Moore 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 #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"No extra charge for overdose."  "Try our hair restorer. It will grow hair on the piano."  "Furniture oil parfait."  "Used drugs cannot be returned."  "Recent eggs."  From Medical College of Virginia's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pharmacist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Crystal Locket by Nellie M. Rowe and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #seahorse
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Old News (permalink)
"Something seems to be the trouble."  From Asbury College's 1933 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the drake which swallowed the frog who would a-wooing go.  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #frog #hidden picture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Erskine College's 1914 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 #yearbook #marotte #handstand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #tree #vintage magazine #painter #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #cat #falling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tulips, Narcissi and Lilies for the Connoisseur by Mrs. C. R. Stewart Leckie, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flowers #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Do not be conformed to this world" (Romans 12:2).  From Judson College's 1990 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #biblical #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Japan, Home of the Sun by Dearmin & Peck and illustrated by Kikuko Mori, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #buddha #illustration
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July 12, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers by John Edgar and Morton Edgar, 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 #egypt #pyramid #1920s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egyptian #incense #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question.  "What holds things together?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #hippo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1940s #grail
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Surrounded by ghosts.  From Salem College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #spirit photography #blurred #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dolls ruined by a cockatoo.  From St. Nicholas, 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 #toys #dolls
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #venice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eve's Daughters, illustrated by Arthur Learned, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #peacock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #violin #musician #pillow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rosicrvcian Symbology by George Winslow Plummer, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #symbolism #rosicrucian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ball State University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #dragonslayer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Crow and the Whitewash by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #crow #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bug catcher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #giant #fairy tale #forest spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #golf #illustration #club
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Old News (permalink)
"Bad homes breed criminals."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1946.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hypnotist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #buffalo #up a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #practical joke #vintage yearbook #yearbook #all wet #water bucket
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Old News (permalink)
"This leakage must stop."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage headline
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July 11, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Sorry, no doomsday today."  From Borderlands, 1993.
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#end of the world #vintage headline #doomsday #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fame and Fortune Weekly, 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 #money #animal attack #buried treasure #gold #treasure chest #vintage magazine #magazine
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The Right Word (permalink)
From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #donkey #gopherism
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
An extremely rare charm against fright, from Dressing Gowns and Glue by L. de G. Sieveking, 1920.
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#fear #magick #magic spell #charm #fright #occult #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A chair with extra legs.  From Mansfield's 1924 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 #yearbook #smoke #chair #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #brain #push button
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from the State University of New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences at Binghamton's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From House Scraps by G. Duckworth Atkin and illustrated by Geo. Cruickshank, F. C. Gould, and Lucien Davis, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #hybrid
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Moving Picture World, 1924.
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#vintage ad #money #half dollar #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion University's 1989 yearbook.

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

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#severed head #vintage yearbook #headless #mascot #decapitated #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mermaid's Gift by Julia Brown and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 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 #polar bear #night sky #stars #starry night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Westminster Choir College's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse #country mouse #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories From the Faerie Queen by Mary Macleod and illustrated by A. G. Walker, 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 #knight #tied to a tree
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Sights and Spectacles, by Mary McCarthy:

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Odets and Steinbeck[s’] . . . frequent ascents into “fine writing” are punctuated with pauses for applause that are nearly audible.

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Mr. Maxwell Anderson, having already taken his title from Keats, presented one of his characters with the whole of Eliot’s Sweeney Among the Nightingales, which was recited twice and served once to bring down a curtain which might otherwise have stayed up forever.

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Harvey, with its rabbit six feet tall, is the talk of the country, but this will not insure the next producer against the failure of a play about a short giraffe.

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Though [the plays of George Kelly] are performed by actors, their complete cast of characters is not listed on the program, their real heroes being glasses of water, pocketbooks, telephones, and after-dinner coffee cups.

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The Hamlet echo is part of the joke, like a Mona Lisa on a moustache.

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[In Congreve], physical existence itself is the jest.

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These plays are not contemptible . . . . But the heavy workmanship of these structures is out of all proportion to their function; it is as though one were to make an umbrella out of solid marble.
***
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
Today's whispering monkey is from The Duluth Herald, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #whisper #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #hunter
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The Right Word (permalink)
How two simple words, "Good going," can become a talisman for another's further courage and initiative.  From The School Press Review, 1927.
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#talisman #encouragement #word magic
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to move from cover to title page.

Click to move from cover to title page
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#vintage book #book #mountain #gif #tibet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hippo #dentist #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 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 #constellation #centaur #archer #sagittarius
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #lamb #illustration #crossword puzzle
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July 10, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Baths.  Why not have them?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage headline #headline #bath
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #bird #cockatoo #mr. punch #toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri at Kansas City's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Excitability by Diane Williams.
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#vintage illustration #eyes #excitability
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1927 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 #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We, too, stand on rocking horses to reach high shelves.  From The Book of Hobbies; or, A Guide to Happiness by Charles Taussig and Theodore Meyer, 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 #books #1920s #library #rocking horse
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The Right Word (permalink)
"That's the only word for it, despair."  From Dark Shadows episode 344.
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#despair #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
We, too, are alive in 1885.  From Oberlin College's 1911 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #physiognomy #mustache #diagram #forehead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #leaf #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He changed himself to a hawk."  From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring, 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 tale #bird #shapeshifting #hawk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #eagle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horror #vintage yearbook #dentist #cursed
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #marriage #rose-colored glasses
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earthquake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #litter #leaning tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Boston Latin School Register, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #trees #perspective
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We, too, use a plinth for collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.  From Hollins College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statistics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #faces in things #pots and pans
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Huntington College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #before and after #illustration #bow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #bed #river #river bed
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July 9, 2023

The Right Word (permalink)
Dictionary.com dates the expression "flying blind" to World War II, but of course it's as old as aviation and frequently appears in print during World War I.  For example, there's this from the Irish Times: "The pilots, flying blind through the clouds" (Oct. 9, 1918).
Today's owl with a paper bag over its head flying blind into a jack-o'-lantern house is from We Can Read Magic and Make-believe Book Two by Gerrard & McInnes, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #1960s #illustration #jack-o-lantern #paper bag head #flying blind
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #sun #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#infinity
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Just in case you're collecting book titles containing tiny parenthetical phrases, here is People (Thither coming out of a region wherein disasters are met as if they were a jest), Whom You May Meet at the Fair by Adair Welcker, 1913.
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#vintage book
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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 #cat fight #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window display #mannequin #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #broken glass
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Fox University's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #mannequin #vintage woman #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose In Silhouettes by Katherine Gough Buffum, 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 #silhouette #jumping
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ready for the fancy dress ball."  From St. Nicholas, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #fancy dress party #costume #women #vintage women #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cow #artist #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #fraternity #vintage yearbook #1940s #up a tree #paddling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Forest by Stewart Edward White, 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 #canoe #otter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #opera #theatre #illustration #singer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Tom Thumb (McLoughlin Bros.), c. 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #tom thumb
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #sailor
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Old News (permalink)
"The day the puffs fell."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.
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#vintage headline #headline
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July 8, 2023

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Twin Peaks' fish in the percolator.  From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany Streets and Roads by Gray & Monroe, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #coffee #fish #illustration #Twin Peaks #twin peaks precursor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #house #anti-coloring
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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 #mouse #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The beauty that is passing away: everybody's fault."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
The mismatched clock faces on the tower caught our eye right off.  From Saint Francis College's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blindfolded #torch #sorority
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Old News (permalink)
"Impossible very probable."  From Toike Oike, 1948.
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#impossible #probability #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern College's 1912 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Song of Sixpence Picture Book by Walter Crane, 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 #blackbird #pie
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1940 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 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 #falling #horse #cowboy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southeast Missouri State College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage yearbook #headphones
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flower #dandelion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The end of a perfect "pay" -- a doctor visits the grave of the patient he has killed.  From Medical College of Virginia's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #grave #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #upside down #handstand #headstand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #witch #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse #spinning wheel #yarn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Butterfly people hatch from soap bubbles.  rom Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #butterfly woman #insect people #butterfly people #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Death ends elopement."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  
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#death #vintage headline #elopement
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University'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 #greek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #nervous
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July 7, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 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 #nest #bird #worm #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tony and Jo-Jo by Gates, Liveright & Esterline, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey #crying #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Big Book of Needlecraft by Annie Paterson, 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 #illustration #jacobean
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Old News (permalink)
"Man thinks in words.  Some people talk inwardly."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From By the Overflowing Nile by Elmer Hoenshel, 1910.
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#sphinx #egypt
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Old News (permalink)
"A clown stops the world."  From The Gateway, 1969.
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#clown #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Pudding cometh."  From St. Nicholas, 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 #pudding
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Old News (permalink)
From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage headline #headline #dungeons and dragons
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The bookshelf includes a textbook on How to Psyche Them Out, the cookbook How to Gain Weight, It's All Greek To Me, Not So Plain Speaking, Nada Mas, the three-volume East - Meets - West, and Pure Trash.  From Barnard's 1978 yearbook

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #bookshelf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #dancing #1930s #dizzy #spinning #you spin me round
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1929 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 #scissors #yearbook #1920s #skirt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Voyage of the Wishbone Boat by Alice C. D. Riley, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #arches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 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 #cat #post office #mail slot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Picture Show, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #long hair #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Emerald City of Oz, by L. Frank Baum:

[In case Rigmarole Town is new to you, as it was to me (until Gore Vidal, of all people, pointed me to it).]

"Is this Rigmarole Town?"

"Sir," replied the boy, "if you have traveled very much you will have noticed that every town differs from every other town in one way or another and so by observing the methods of the people and the way they live as well as the style of their dwelling places it ought not to be a difficult thing to make up your mind without the trouble of asking questions whether the town bears the appearance of the one you intended to visit or whether perhaps having taken a different road from the one you should have taken you have made an error in your way and arrived at some point where—"

"Land sakes!" cried Aunt Em, impatiently; "what's all this rigmarole about?"

"That's it!" said the Wizard, laughing merrily. "It's a rigmarole because the boy is a Rigmarole and we've come to Rigmarole Town."

"Do they all talk like that?" asked Dorothy, wonderingly.

"He might have said 'yes' or 'no' and settled the question," observed Uncle Henry.

"Not here," said Omby Amby. "I don't believe the Rigmaroles know what 'yes' or 'no' means."

While the boy had been talking several other people had approached the wagon and listened intently to his speech. Then they began talking to one another in long, deliberate speeches, where many words were used but little was said. But when the strangers criticised them so frankly one of the women, who had no one else to talk to, began an address to them, saying:

"It is the easiest thing in the world for a person to say 'yes' or 'no' when a question that is asked for the purpose of gaining information or satisfying the curiosity of the one who has given expression to the inquiry has attracted the attention of an individual who may be competent either from personal experience or the experience of others to answer it with more or less correctness or at least an attempt to satisfy the desire for information on the part of the one who has made the inquiry by—"

[...]

"If those people wrote books," Omby Amby remarked with a smile, "it would take a whole library to say the cow jumped over the moon."
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#oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #panther
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Newton Junior College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Spelling Program 6 by Thomas and Braun, 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bookworm #illustration
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July 6, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"United States of China?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Fort Wayne Works News, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #cat #superstition #unlucky
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Bad advice!  "Never fear the winding road that projects into tomorrow."  In St. Ives, Cornwall, a very narrow one-way winding road led terrifyingly to a steep staircase not suitable for cars.  It required a 15-point turn to get out of that deathtrap.  Seriously, one was envisioning a helicopter rescue.  Indeed, the winding road that projects into tomorrow may possibly be malefic.  From Rend Lake's 1980 yearbook

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #winding road #path of life #bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #moose #dancing animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lake View Hospital Training School's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Much Depends On Dinner by Margaret Visser.
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#vintage headline #headline #dinner
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #labyrinth #maze
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1988 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When you are cross, you must cross, till you are pleasant."  From Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 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 #twisted #bad mood #crossed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #dandies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A pianist and her vocalist.  From Chatterbox, 1892. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #piano #bird #musical animal #pianist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Compliments of the Season by Eleanor Donnelly, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Jerome's College's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There are so many possibilities."  From Dark Shadows episode 675.
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#vampire #possibilities #dark shadows #jonathan frid #barnabas collins
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #head in the clouds #faceless #no face
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May marmots not invade your dreams tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #symbol #marmot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gnome #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Hypnotic anaesthesia, from The Master Course in Hypnotism by Harry Arons, 1948.
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#vintage photo #hypnotism #candle #hypnotist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From De L'androgyne, Théorie Plastique by Joséphin Péladan, 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 #androgyne
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July 5, 2023

A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
It can be difficult to distinguish between spirits and scientists: both speak in weird voices, make loud unexplained noises, exude funky odors, and/or cause random electrical malfunctions.  If contact is made with an unfriendly spirit or scientist, instruct the entity to return from whence it came.  If the spirit or scientist refuses to leave, the next step is to engage someone experienced in exorcisms or house clearings.
Book title from Spirits and Scientists by David Hess, 1991.
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#ghost #science #seance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #illustration #winged rabbit
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Old News (permalink)
"Belt buckles worn in spite of princess modes."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat #1920s #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #monocle #1920s #vintage man #man
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Old News (permalink)
"Does she have my problem too?"  From The Gateway, 1967.
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#female trouble #1960s #vintage headline #woman #vintage woman #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, suspect that the number 4 hasn't confessed all it knows.  From Tulane's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sherlock holmes #pipe smoker #magnifying glass #number 4 #inspector #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #dog #thread #pincushion #needle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #doctor #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Slippers in the shape of Garfield's canine friend Odie were lamentably tormented.  From Olivet Nazarene University's 1986 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #slippers #1980s
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1953.
* 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 #galleon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian Junior College's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage men #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #title page #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara College's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #cowboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Castles in the air?  From Psychic and UFO Revelations In The Last Days by Timothy Beckley.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #castle in the air #floating city
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #fowl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #pipe smoker #vintage men #men #sailor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Erskine College's 1914 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 #firecracker #firework
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
Uncle Fester gets all his news from last year's paper.  From The Addams Family, episode 1.08.
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#newspaper #addams family
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to page six.
From City of Ravens, The Extraordinary History of London, the Tower and its Famous Ravens by Boria Sax.

From City of Ravens, The Extraordinary History of London, the Tower and its Famous Ravens by Boria Sax
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#raven #gif
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July 4, 2023

Precursors (permalink)
Five years before Uncle Fester lit light bulbs in his mouth in The Addams Family series (1964), we saw it done in Broome Technical Community College's 1959 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #electricity #addams family #light bulb #vintage man #man #1950s #uncle fester
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bookworm #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #bushcoat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 5.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #merman #sea monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage man #sign #handover #1954
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The four saucy mice to tabby: 'Heads we win!  Tails, you lose!'"  From St. Nicholas, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mice #cat and mouse #flipping a coin #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1927
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Old News (permalink)
"Magic in clocks."  From The Instructor, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #clock #clock tower #vintage headline #headline #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carver Junior College's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stag #antlers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 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 #confetti
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"And the light shines in the darkness."  From Salve Regina College's 1963 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and darkness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #knight #jousting
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Snippets from some Gore Vidal essays:

[From "American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction." Just look at the percentage of "barth-" in this passage!]
Barthes has also had a significant (or signifying) effect on a number of American writers, among them Mr. Donald Barthelme. Two years ago Mr. Barthelme was quoted as saying that the only American worth reading are John Barth, Grace Paley, William Gass, and Thomas Pynchon.

[Ditto]
Twice, by the way, I have used the word "thing" in this paragraph. I grow suspicious...of all things and their shadows, words.

[from "Why I Am Eight Years Younger Than Anthony Burgess"--ha!]
Under another name, Burgess had reviewed one of his own books....I was delighted....Shouldn't there be in all of England at least one review written by someone who had actually read the book?

[from "Who Makes the Movies?"]
For every Joe Mankiewicz or Preston Sturges there are a dozen Xs and Ys, not to mention the depressing Z.

[Attached: from "The Oz Books"]

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The Right Word (permalink)
From Using Our Language, Grade VIII by T. I. Davis, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #grammar #flashlight #light bulb #gasoline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #uncle sam #fourth of july #fireworks
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pan pipes #musician #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From The New York State Exhibitor, 1933.
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#vintage ad #nose #vintage headline #big nose #headline #jimmy durante #ad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Come under my umbrella ... I like the sound of raindrops when there are two of us.  But ... all alone I feel outnumbered."  From Eastern Mennonite College's 1973 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#rainy day #umbrella #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #fourth of july #crossword puzzle #july 4
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gee, I wonder what they is skeered of."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #fourth of july #fireworks #firecracker #illustration
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July 3, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Who will not cry?  Not I!  Not I!"  From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #living toy #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fourth of july #fireworks #firecracker #illustration #armor #personal protection
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Precursors (permalink)
A precursor to Gomez Addams.  From Purple Parrot, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #cricket
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that what we write reveals who we are.  This may be the best proof we've seen of that.  From Gonzaga University's 1981 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #collage #typewriter #vintage man #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
The Lord is my onion; I shallot want.  From Lighted Pathway, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #onion #god #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1954 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #chess #ghost hand #armor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls by Charlotte Gulick, 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 #eye #symbolism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia University's 1915 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #owl #reading #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"It may be irrelevant, after all."  From The Gateway, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline #irrelevant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Prospecting in the snow.  From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #prospector #cowgirl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
To make it classier, place the action on a diamond.  From Fantastic Science Fiction, vol. 5, no. 04.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 magazine #diamond #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The bedside manner -- or how the grapes disappear."  From The Goblin, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #doctor #grapes #bedside manner
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Roberts Junior College's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #archer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #imp #anthropomorphism #timepiece #clock face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Note that one drummer is on a different beat.  From Southeast Missouri State College'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 #dancing #drum #1970s #different drummer #different drum
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"Find the pig stolen by Tom the piper's son."  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #hidden picture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1927 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 #tiny people
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Old News (permalink)
"Mummy, I've got to have a lizard and a horse!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#horse #lizard #vintage headline #headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
There's another firecracker and another boy hidden in this picture.  The second boy is ghostly and quite eerie.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fourth of july #firework #hidden pictures
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July 2, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know why we get the best seats at the worst plays."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #tasmanian devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #devil #skull #fourth of july #fireworks #firecracker #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A yearbook dedicated to the departed.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From North Carolina Wesleyan College's 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #book dedication
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #cracker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lake View Hospital Training School's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #laughter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1942.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #sheet ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emory University's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Hades Speaks! A Guide To the Underworld By the Greek God of the Dead, by Vicky Alvear Shecter and illustrated by J. E. Larson, in which we hail the illustrations for bringing the underworld to life (as it were).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#dance of death #skull face #hell #hades
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#skull and crossbones #crown #vintage yearbook #skull and bones #costume #1930s
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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.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 #prophet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1928 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 #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wind Wagon by David Cory and illustrated by P. H. Webb, 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 #cerberus #hercules
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #chicken
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myself and I by Helen Van Valkenburgh and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #flower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 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 #cat #dunce
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle
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Old News (permalink)
"Astronomer's verdict: Flying saucers are real."  From Fate Magazine, 1967.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hell #vintage yearbook #burned alive #roasted on a spit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #robin #egg #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medieval Days and Ways by Gertrude Hartman, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage map #map #illustration #anglo-saxon #tenth century
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We suspect that someone decided a juggler of severed heads was a bit too macabre, so stick figure bodies were added, presumably to make the proceedings less shocking though more absurd.  From Wilmington College's 1920 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #severed head #vintage yearbook #juggling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Doom!  Doom!  Doom!"  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doom #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Great sea-turtle of the chalk age.  From St. Nicholas, 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 #museum #turtle #giant turtle #sea turtle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 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 #knight #perceval
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cat and dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An Italian carved oak four-post bed of the 16th century.  Unusual form of posts and base."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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"The tribe is young and lacks experience."  From Southeast Missouri State College's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage headline #headline #inexperienced
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#religion #vintage illustration #temple #monkey #india #hinduism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Williams College's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #mouse #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels and illustrated by Emily Hall Chamberlin, 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 #fairy tale #apple
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Great news: "the beauty you are striving for can be found."  From Kansas State University's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #cat #beauty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett, 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 #mythology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #skating #ice skating
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #weathervane #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1909.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Pillars of society."  From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caryatids #pillar
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Old News (permalink)
Sounds almost like an alternative putdown to "Go take a hike."  "Blow your mind on a rabbit," from The Gateway, 1967.
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#rabbit #vintage headline #psychedelic #headline
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