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July 31, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox #rabbit #bear #lynx #illustration #weasel #red squirrel
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Contradictory proverbs: Look before you leap; he who hesitates is lost."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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Old News (permalink)
"There is nothing to stick to."  From There Is Nothing To Stick To by Dionysia Exarchopoulos.
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#vintage headline #headline #unstuck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Buena Vista College's 1918 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
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Old News (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#vintage headline #headline #excitement
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro 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 #chemist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1932 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gate
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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 #mock turtle #turtle
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Old News (permalink)
"Has anyone tried to get your nose?"  From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#vintage illustration #hand #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #preacher #vintage yearbook #cowboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #balancing act #clown #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont 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 #star #foreword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Virginia Polytechnic Institute's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Old King Cole.  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 #king #mustache #old king cole #king cole
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The Right Word (permalink)
Football terms.  From Simpson College's 1927 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 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 #scroll
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Old News (permalink)
"Romance does not fit into any 5-year plan."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage headline #romance
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July 30, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's goat building a snowman in the wrong order.  From We Can Read Surprises by Gerrard & McInnes, 1965.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #anthropomorphism #goat #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A suffocating bedstead."  From The Strand, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #1890s #illustration #bed #trick furniture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #chicken #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The little giant girl picks up Charlie."  From Charlie and His Kitten Topsy, written and illustrated by Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell, 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 #giant #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Manx cat on its native heath."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #manx #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"'I will go and do the things ...' [asterisk]."   From The Improvement Era, 1963.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #dancing #map #faces in things #blurred
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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 #chicken #rooster #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont College's 1926 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #ornate frame #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #snake #animal attack #cobra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How the People Sang the Mountains Up by Maria Leach, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #walking the plank
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #animal attack #lion #up a tree #tarzan
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Old News (permalink)
"Snow isn't as soft as it looks."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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#snow #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Buena Vista College's 1918 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #bubbles #vintage yearbook #yearbook #soap bubbles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #moon #vintage diagram #seeing double #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #airplane #arabia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #seal man
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Engaged, by W. S. Gilbert:

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Carried aloft by a headless turkey.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #turkey #headless #decapitated #carried aloft
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July 29, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
Before The Exorcist, there was the possession of Esther Cox.  From Fate Magazine, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #occult #demonic possession #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Old News (permalink)
This is how we initially misread it, as "poetry" instead of "poverty."
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#poetry #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Dog Crusoe and His Master by Robert Michael Ballantyne, 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 #owl #illustration #1910s #prairie dog #marmot
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #owl #grammar #1930s #illustration #cuckoo #smart animal #poem
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 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 #anthropomorphism #duck #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Is Taoism? by Herrlee Glessner Creel.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus Macmillan and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 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 #wolf
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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 #fox #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Crow and the Whitewash by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #moon
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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 key #silhouette #castle #shadow #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #princess #sleeping beauty
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield State Teachers College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #circles #spheres
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hanover's 1912 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #popping cork #bottle
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1965 yearbook.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ocean #wave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University'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 #lion #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #devil #giant hand #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine #pill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic World, 1931.
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#occult #mesmerism #triangle #1930s
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July 28, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cupid's Book, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #table setting #1920s #tea #diagram #illustration #tea service
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Old News (permalink)
"Bullock in the bird house."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1956.
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#bull #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #arctic #sea lion
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#ornate capital #sleep #capital s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The importance of a little foundation.  From Thomas More College's 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #makeup #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Review, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sphinx #lucky charm #ark of the covenant #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College'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 #candle #the end
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Old News (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage headline #bald #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #genie #cat #genii #jinn #winged cat #cat genie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University'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 #pipe smoker #dandy #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"'Burned out' really means burned out today."  From The Improvement Era, 1963.
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#burned out #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story Book of Nick and Dick by Arthur Gates.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #sphere #crystal ball #gypsy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing #1908 #glee club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beer #drinking #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Two Minds, edited by Jonathan St. B. T. Evans and Keith Frankish.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #two faces #two faced #coin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #falling #knight #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Farce, by Albert Bermel:

[Some fun silent-film-star mustache descriptions attached. (Apologies for the blur: that says "inverted croissant"!)]

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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 #leopard #illustration
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July 27, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#vampire #music video #video #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"What shadows we are.  Man as a microscopic speck.  The human body is not so solid as it seems."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#shadow people #vintage headline #microscopic #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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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 #skeleton #1900s #mountain #polar
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1920s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna'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 #monkey #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Cranky inventors.  Brainy people who are kept locked up."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1896.
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#insanity #vintage headline #inventor #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The fishing-frog" (monkfish).  From The World of Wonders, 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 #fish #monkfish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mabel Normand in The Film Daily, 1924.
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#lion #vintage hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 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 #knife #decapitated
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Iowa State College's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#monster #horror #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1986 yearbook.

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

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#devil #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In the hidden hours of the night."  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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#bat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mushroom #illustration
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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 #candles with faces #candle face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #smoking #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Emblem of Vanity, from Physiognomische Fragmente by Johann Caspar Lavater, 1775-78.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #mask #vanity #1770s
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July 26, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #ox #ox cart #cart
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Old News (permalink)
"How to use a 'magic money bag' to receve gifts from the invisible world."  From Telecult Power by Reese Dubin, 1970. 
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#magick #money #occult #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #octopus #tentacles #illustration #stranded at sea
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you a water witcher?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1946.
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#water witch #dowsing #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cats with deep feelins is called feline cats."  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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#vintage illustration #cat #crying cat #crying animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This image may be used to facilitate astral or time travel.  From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #perspective
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Old News (permalink)
"Appeasing the squanderlust."  From Motion Picture Classic, 1929.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#tiger #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #phrenology #brain #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dickon Bend-the-Bow and Other Wonder Tales by Everett McNeil and illustrated by Rob Wagner, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double #scroll
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Old News (permalink)
"The misfortune of being out-of-date."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.  
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#out of date #vintage headline #headline #anachronism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #gallows #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Thomas Prest's Varney the Vampire, 1847
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#vintage illustration #vampire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Man evicted, his snakes must go, too."  From The Toronto Star, 1993.
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#snake #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, November-December 1917:
Notes on attachments:
1.Rhetorical Questions Answered department, Thanking a Hippopotamus division
A. Well, it couldn't hurt.
2. Did the "telegram-opening" play type give Wodehouse the idea of using flurries of telegrams in his novels?
3. The series of blank names in the theatrical dressing-room scenario is especially funny because, earlier in the story, the star asks to be notified when a "Mr. Blank" has come offstage. Bonus: The default file name for the images I create in Gimp is "blank.jpg." Normally, after I've pasted in a screen capture, I overwrite that name...but this time I didn't have to!




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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 #boxing
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July 25, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #anthropomorphism #cat #monkey #puss in boots #musical animal #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1896.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #facial tic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Grove City College'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 #joker #1920s
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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 #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #astrology #fish #pisces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #faceless #no face #1980s #spacemen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
What's in your pocket?  From Purdue University's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #upside down
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"All the flavor is not in the cheese (or the salad or dip or soup, or whatever)."  From The Improvement Era, 1960.
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#vintage ad #cheese #crackers #hors d'oeuvres #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Assumption College's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage men #tongue out #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1869.
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#vintage illustration #pig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Dead but not buried."  From Utah Agricultural College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Eyes wide, staring fixedly at something no one can see."  From Dark Shadows episode 159.
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#dark shadows
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1921 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairy #books #dream #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1955.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 christmas #christmas #bunny #vintage magazine #holidays combined #magazine
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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.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Record Changer, 1951.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jazz #skiffle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Game of Healthy Living by Winslow & Hahn, 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 #1930s #posture #illustration #toy
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July 24, 2024

Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Changes All Around Us by Craig & Baldwin, 1940.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #weather #storm #1940s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a thermometer that falls to Zero breaks the ice."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #thermometer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adventures in Child Land by Frances Lilian Taylor, 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 #bear #three bears
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Old News (permalink)
"Something IS being done about the weather!"  From The Improvement Era, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #weather #weather control #vintage headline #climate control #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Circle of Cats by Charles De Lint and illustrated by Charles Vess.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
11 of the 14 have their eyes closed.  Swimmers let water into their eyes, but apparently they fear the sparks of the photographer's explosive powder flash.  From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1920s #vintage men #swim team
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The magpie's nest."  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 #nest #crow #blackbird #up a tree #magpie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wide-eyed.  From Park College's 1911 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 #wide-eyed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #kangaroo #rabbit
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 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 #earth #end of the world
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#yearbook #pipe smoker #vintage man #man #sign #1950s #don't feed the animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cloud-cuckoo-land."  From Lucian's Wonderland by St. J. Basil Wynne Willson and illustrated by A. Payne Garnett, 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 #flying ship #cloud
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal School's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What would you do if you could make yourself invisible?"  An ad for the lost 1923 silent film The Unknown Purple.  From The Film Daily, 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 ad #1920s #vintage hollywood #invisible man #hollywood #silent film #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Arlene Dahl, from Modern Screen, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #bubble pipe #blowing bubbles #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman #1950s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #cowboy #lasso #rodeo
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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 #beard #animal attack #oz
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July 23, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #circus #processional #1890s #illustration #procession #trained animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #well #1870s #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1956.
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#lion #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"'Mysterious' recoveries are often triggered by remembered 'lost words.'"  From The Aberree, 1963.  
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#vintage headline #recovery #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage ad #vegetable #pea #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Anything goes — everything went!"  From Eastern Nazarene College's 1986 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline #anything goes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #elf #tiny man #chef #run for your life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spotlight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Kit's Cotty House in Kent.  From Chatterbox, 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 #standing stones #monolith #kent
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene'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 #yearbook #1970s #exhaustion #collapsed #on the floor #pep rally
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Are you summer tired?"  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #whiskey #fatigue #ad
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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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let's talk about something pleasant!"  (Turns out it's an ad for laxatives.)  From Movie Classic, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #1930s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Simpson 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Snow White (written and illustrated by various), 1906.
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#vintage illustration #all wet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Missouri Southern State University's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #starry night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #bag #paper bag head #paper bag
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #ice skating
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, October 1917:

[Note: The Benchley piece was credited to "Brighton Perry," which turns out to be a known RCB pseudonym. I'd say this makes it a little more likely that our recently seen "Brighton Airly" was also Bob B. By the way, earlier in the piece he offers another fictitious show called "Well, I'll Be Darned!"]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pluck and Luck Complete Stories of Adventure, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #minotaur #animal headed #bull #vintage magazine #man bull #bull man #magazine #bull-headed
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July 22, 2024

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#vampire #video #freezepop #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
Glass cars and boats are here!  From The Children's Newspaper, 1952.
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#boat #vintage headline #vintage automobile #glass #automobile #headline #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 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 #1920s #illustration #pride #making faces #dignity
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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 #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Where men dance for gods."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The best years of your life were 2000 years ago."  From I Dream of Jeannie, season 4, episode 17.
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#i dream of jeannie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do not talk to the bus while the driver is in motion."  From The Old Line, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #advice #bus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1920s #vintage men #musician #tuba
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #chicken
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia Teachers College'a 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 #lamb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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 #illustration #up the skirt #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Long, long be my heart with such memories fill'd!  Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'd: you may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it still.  —Thomas Moore."  From Tri-State College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #skating #glass cutter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1936 yearbook.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wine #bacchus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Crystal Locket by Nellie M. Rowe and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #weightless #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1932 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #carriage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #thunderbird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #personal protection #cardboard box
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Old News (permalink)
"The eternal conquest of death."  From When A Man Dies by Carlyle Haynes, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #death #angel #grim reaper #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Anywhere, any time, to anybody."  From Santa Clara College's 1930 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wonderful
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July 21, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
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#neons gone mad #wunderfish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Single Wives."  From Life, August-December 1924.  Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #caricature #1920s #illustration #making faces #corinne griffith
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's amphisbaena is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #two-headed #illustration #amphisbaena #two-headed snake
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if musicians carry their drums in their ears."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #drum #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 #gibbon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877). 
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#vintage illustration #crow #nursery rhyme
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield State Teachers College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #anvil #ironmonger #forge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In full disclosure, we're that way around incense, too.  From Chatterbox, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #incense #smoke #vizier
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1974.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster #uncle sam #two faces #two-faced
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
An honest headline!  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#lie #vintage headline #fake news #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together magazine, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 #wickedness #flea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Sheet ghost administrators.  From Union College's 1962 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#sheet ghost #vintage yearbook
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Ampersands (permalink)
From Black Cats & Four-Leaf Clovers by Harry Oliver.
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#luck #black cat #cat #superstition #ampersand
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Old News (permalink)
"Some do and some don't."  From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No dorg nor no cat."  From Sailing Alone Around the World by Capt. Joshua Slocum and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian, 1901.
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#sailor #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #christianity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #roman #agrippa
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #tiger #oz
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Fashion, by Anna Cora Mowatt:

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"There is a jenny-says-quoi look about this furniture."

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"The true test of a poet is the velocity with which he composes."

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"Miss Tiffany is not visible this morning." [To mean she's not receiving, i.e., cannot "be seen."]
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Bonus funny business with names:

1. One character is listed as "T. Tennyson Twinkle, a Modern Poet" ("modern" in this play dating to 1845, mind you!). At one point another character refers to him as a "rhyming dictionary," which of course we can file with walking encyclopedias and such.
2. A character calling himself Count Jolimaitre (spoiler--he's a fake!) is at one point referred to as "Count Jolly--what-d'ye-call-it."
3. The pseudo-Count, in the course of improvising some name-dropping, invents a "Lord Knowswho."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Laughing Horse, 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 #tree #1920s #illustration #linocut #lino print #cottonwood
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July 20, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
In this episode, the Viscount fears an uprising of the Village People.
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#humor #satire #prof. oddfellow #vampire #1970s #village people #video #penetralia #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"The train to nowhere."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.
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#train #vintage headline #headline #nowhere
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 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 #snake #1920s #pinocchio #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #comet #vintage yearbook #yearbook #astrologer #shooting star #astronomer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sandman: His Ship Stories by William J. Hopkns and illustrated by Diantha W. Horne, 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 #monk #figurine #shell
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you a down-beat wonder?"  From The Instructor, 1953.
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#vintage headline #headline #downbeat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together magazine, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #puppet #marionette #puppet master #manipulation
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Uncle Sam's profile is the United States turned on its side.  From St. Nicholas, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #uncle sam #strange map #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Autobiography of Methuselah by John Kendrick Bangs and illustrated by F. G. Cooper, 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 #ape #garden of eden #nurse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dignity and impudence."  From Chatterbox, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #lion #caged animal #poodle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #big mouth #vintage yearbook #orator #middle finger
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
A fairy prayer to a butterfly, from Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #prayer #butterfly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seahorse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #balloon #felix
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ukulelist about to play at his own funeral.  From Iowa State College's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#practical joke #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage men #vintage man #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 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 #cat #statue
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #time warp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Utah Agricultural College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stage #spotlight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What they do on Sunday.  From Together magazine, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage photo #1960s #waterskiing #sunday
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1930s #illustration
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July 19, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 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 #cave #caveman #illustration #prehistoric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Dumb Animals, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #bird #illustration #1910s #hummingbird
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Our Fourfooted Friends and How We Treat Them, 1904.
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#cat #vintage photo #1900s #photo
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Old News (permalink)
"Where are all the books to go?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#books #library #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cliff #village
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Old News (permalink)
"Take the kinks out of history."  From The Instructor, 1953.
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#history #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hangman #noose #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost haunting Duke's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle, 2012.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw University's 1921 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 #bottle
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Old News (permalink)
"Couldn't tie kangaroo down, so sang on TV."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.
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#kangaroo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #occult #grimoire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
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#vintage illustration #frog #aesop
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, Sept. 1917:

Notes:
1. What first attracted me to the ad for the pearls was the effect of "To Say the Least!" acting as a caption for the illustration of the woman above it, as though it were a decontextualized critical moment from a short story. Then I read the ad copy, which I thought was amusingly perplexing in its own right. It had me trying to do the math, and saying to myself, "Okay...so where exactly does that leave us?"
2. The rest of the attached snippets are from the Nathan piece whose clever title is shown. I like how beans figure in two independent bits, both of which are funny on their own in different ways. The (partial) list, as you may have guessed, represents a ranking of the supposedly funniest things in vaudeville as of even date. Farther down the list (and not shown here) appears "Imprinting a kiss of goodbye on a dollar bill about to be loaned to someone." Nathan appends a comment that his source proved fallible only in saying "Swiss where it should have been Gorgonzola" [attention: "Which Is Funnier?" desk]. Finally, re. the omnipresent "boob," I note that this article precedes by four years Merriam-Webster's earliest known date for "booboisie," a term which as you probably know was associated with (originated by?) Nathan's editorial partner Mencken.







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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 128.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #evolution #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Barnes' Language Lessons or Short Studies in English, 1887.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Appleton's Fifth Reader by Harris, Rickoff & Bailey, 1885.
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July 18, 2024

Old News (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss In Boots by Josiah Wood Whymper, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fables In Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir, 1870.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stage Costuming by Agnes Brooks Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #dark ages #900s
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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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#ghost #two faces #two-faced #vintage headline #headline #double life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #whale #native american #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw University's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #snake #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#pagan #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's horse-headed card player is from the University of Western Ontario's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #card game #animal-headed #horse-headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #balancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1935.
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#paddle #spanking #vintage illustration #hazing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we thought he was shaking his fist at the map in the sky (as one sometimes does).  From Chatterbox, 1923.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crushed #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Dermot and the Thirsty Stones, written and illustrated by Richard Bennett.
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#vintage illustration #merman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mining #metallurgy
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I don't know if anything is all right anymore."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know exactly."
From Dark Shadows episode 637.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1930 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Spelling Program 6 by Thomas and Braun, 1979.
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July 17, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #vampire #video #penetralia #grave mood rings #workout
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book C by Donalda Dickie, 1945.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #fish #under the sea #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"People who cannot be broken."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insect people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Relating by Liz Greene, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #earth #astrology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Put out the flame; win a prize."  From Ball State University's 1958 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #candle #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#religion #church #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A prism for an eye.  From North Central College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #prism
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Old News (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #drugs #two faces #two faced #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #clock #toilet paper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The virgin and the cat."  From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Paranoia strikes deep."  From Tri-State College's 1973 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Where the Wind Blows by Katharine Pyle and illustrated by Bertha Corson Day, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
His spirit daughter.  From Gallery of Spirit Art, Aug. 1882.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #beard #spiritualism #seance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1892 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #surgery #dissection
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Old News (permalink)
"When aliens steal your sleep."  From Delve Report, 1999.
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#vintage headline #alien #sleep paralysis #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Texas State College's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bull #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #knight #quill pen #flying horse #winged horse #illustration #jousting
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July 16, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #giant #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Book, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if flying men move in high circles."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Suicide wants his meals served for six months."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Peasant Tales of Russia by Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #horse #starry night #folk tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #spinning wheel #sewing
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Suddenly, A Shot Rang Out (permalink)
From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #giant #gunshot
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Old News (permalink)
"Men never worry."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
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#worry #vintage headline #men #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull face #vintage yearbook #xray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A mixed rainbow-cloudbow.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #rainbow #diagram #cloudbow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #cowboy #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Luda, the Occult Girl by Julia Webb Mays, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #human headed #bird man #crying animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #asleep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The spirit is supported by others" while out of body.  From Drawings Descriptive of Spirit Life and Progress, 1874.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Normal School's 1912 yearbook.

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#black cat #vintage yearbook #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#poem #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, July-August 1917:

Some notes on the attachments:
1. I realize we're probably looking edge-on at a hat whose brim encircles the entire head (sombrero-style)...but the impression of antlers is hard for me to avoid, especially if I think of hat antlers as one-upping all those hats with rabbitlike "ears" sticking up.
2. I'm sure she gets this all the time! It turns out the hyphen properly goes between "Evans" and "Burrows," not between "Burrows" and "Fontaine." If it's any consolation to her, though, Wikipedia tells us that her birthplace is, in our time, a ghost town. (RLG?)
3. I'm enclosing the cartoon tableau because (a) I love the stylized "group reaction"; (b) some of the hats seem actually to express the emotions of the astonished group members; and (c) the character in the foreground is apparently so tipsy that his jacket is slipping over the edge of the frame.
4. Needless to say, PGW's words about his theatrical collaborator Bolton have a very familiar ring for us Wodehouse enthusiasts, because Bertie Wooster talks this way about Jeeves. But I find no evidence that the Bertie/Jeeves versions of these assertions occurred prior to a story first published in 1924 (where the phrasing seen here is replicated verbatim)--and so it seems that PGW used these words about his friend *before* repurposing them for Jeeves.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From All-Sports Library, 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 #animal attack #vintage magazine #moose #magazine
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July 15, 2024

Old News (permalink)
"No evil spirits at this school."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1952.
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#exorcism #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Exploring the World of Science by Charles Lake, 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 #earth #vintage diagram #orbit #diagram #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 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 #goat #1930s #mountain #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Sailors don't care."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1935.
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#vintage headline #sailor #apathy
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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 #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The [New York] Journal, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #alaska #1890s #castle in the air #mirage
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Old News (permalink)
"I'd rather be sheeting."  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1978 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #sheeting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Is yours a Good Morning complexion when you're ready to say Good Night?"  From Movie Classic, 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 ad #1930s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Ashes, ashes,' twittered the sparrows."  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 #talking bird #bird #sparrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw University'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 #mandolin #musician
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Old News (permalink)
"What's the use of talking?"  From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#silence #vintage headline #don't speak #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horn #party #noise maker
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #listening #noises #sounds
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose In Silhouettes by Katherine Gough Buffum, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #goose #mother goose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Muskingum College's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From Snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren, 1863.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #snowflake
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #balancing act #clown #oz
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July 14, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to the fan of our Standup Shtick who shared a photo of the Bermuda Triangle t-shirt he snagged.  The t-shirt quotes from this particular routine.
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#bermuda triangle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #turtle #fish #illustration #leapfrog #1880s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #diary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Magnificent Milo, written and illustrated by Joan Balfour Payne (1958).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #severed head #illustration #trophy
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Old News (permalink)
"Something wrong in Nova Scotia.  A flock of seagulls loses its ship."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A strangeness that seems to reach out and touch everyone."  From Dark Shadows episode 9.
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#dark shadows strangeness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 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 #owl #vintage christmas #christmas #church #squirrel #vintage magazine #magazine
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
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#cat people #1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Cornell College'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 #wind #long hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 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 #wolf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 #animal attack #panther #tarzan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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The Right Word (permalink)
Prof. Wolf knew the word that would change him back, but his vocal chords couldn't pronounce it.  From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #wolfman #1940s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Tea for Three, by Roi Cooper Megrue:

[When a play opens with the punchline to a joke we'll never hear the rest of.]

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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1895.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ice #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #headache #illustration #heatwave #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dentist #1970s #illustration
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July 13, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #hooped hood #calash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #worm #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #snake #vintage headline #headline #banana
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"They stole my memories."  From Modern Screen, 1960.
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#memory #1960s #vintage headline #headline #sophia loren
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #animal headed #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ample time to hide until the watch had passed."  From Chatterbox, 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 #lantern #watchman
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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 #black cat #silhouette #man in the moon #vintage yearbook #cats #yearbook #faces in things #catfight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1896 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 #on top of the world
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #crossroads #1960s #x marks the spot #arrow
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #clouds #windmill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Utah Agricultural College's 1925 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 #mountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Are the saucers our friends?"  From Mystic Magazine, 1954.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1900 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #long hair #violin #1900s #braided hair #musician #illustration #long braids #braids
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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 #scarecrow #bird #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hands #seedling #planting
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Old News (permalink)
"Imaginary voyage of an apple."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage headline #apple #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Knights of the Flatiron."  From the United States Naval Academy's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration #iron
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He hid in the bushes and dropped the fruit down into the water."  From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #fox #native american #1920s #illustration
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July 12, 2024

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, 1908.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #ship #1900s #illustration #stranded at sea
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise.  In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask.  Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#vampire #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bridge #london #london bridge #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #vintage diagram #night sky #1920s #diagram #meteor #illustration #leonids #leo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Teacher's College's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #violin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Something old, nothing new— much that's borrowed, naught that's true!"  From Motion Picture Classic, 1924.
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#believe nothing
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"The Cow with the Crumpled Horn: find the dog that was tossed and the cat that was worried."  From Chatterbox, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #cow #hidden pictures
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Old News (permalink)
"Some questions were never answered.  Some answers were never questioned."  From Anderson College's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #questions and answers
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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 #wizard
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Old News (permalink)
"Children should learn to help pay their way."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.  
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#vintage headline #headline #childrearing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #surprise #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Old News (permalink)
"Cat catches mouse—live happily ever after."  A headline paired with a photo from another page within Indiana University's 1961 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #chalkboard #cat and mouse #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #bell #cracked
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Snippets from Vanity Fair, March-May 1917:

[The "Mrs. Thomas W. Aurora" bit and the single Dolly Sister business all come from a piece attributed to "Brighton Airly." The voice seems closer to Wodehouse than Benchley, to my ear; but neither PGW nor RCB jumps strongly out at me, and, given the lack of evidence on the internet, I'm assuming it's not known to be either of them, as that tends to be pretty well documented, ime.]









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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Spiderland by R. A. Ellis, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #spider #spider web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #hooded figure #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
The mummy's nightmare is the disintegration of souls.  From The Western Lands by William Burroughs, 1987.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#mummy #nightmare #william burroughs
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July 11, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
"A rabbit has four legs and an anecdote."  From Junior English Activities 2 by Hatfield, Lewis, Thomas & Woody, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1930s #illustration #anecdote
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that Wunderfish remixed Neons Gone Mad at Tokyo's BnA Wall art hotel.  Here's a clip.
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#neons gone mad #wunderfish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 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 #cat #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories of Pioneer Life, For Young Readers by Florence Bass, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #native american #illustration #wigwam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Well!  Well!!  Well!!!"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1899.
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#vintage ad #1890s #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"A dozen Chaplins, and they're all Charlies."  From Motion Picture Classic, 1919.
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#vintage headline #charlie chaplin #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An owl reads over their shoulders.  From Swarthmore's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #devil #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts' 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #flying broomstick
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Old News (permalink)
"A smoker is two people."  From The Improvement Era, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #two faces #two-faced #vintage headline #cigarette #smoker #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 #demon #native american
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Old News (permalink)
"When you remember, 'you are there!'"  From The Aberree, 1959.
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#time travel #memory #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 4.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle
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Old News (permalink)
"Devil magic of to-day."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#devil #magick #vintage headline #headline #deviltry
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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.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #construction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #oz #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"If doubledecked beds were used in hospitals."  From Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #nurse #illustration #hospital #bunk bed
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you sure you'll do it Sunday night???"  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.
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#procrastination #vintage headline #headline
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July 10, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We have no souls and we are gay without care."  From Undine and Sintram by De la Motte Fouqué, 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 #1890s #gay #illustration #soulless
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's todays muskrat halo.  From The Canadian Spelling Program 3, Teacher's Edition, 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 #anthropomorphism #halo #muskrat #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Teaching Creative Art in Schools by Eccott & Eccott, undated (c. 1948).  See How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #sea serpent #sea monster #loch ness monster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #squirrel #illustration
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
"Life times loving someone equals hell."  From How to Eliminate My Teacher (2020). 
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#chalkboard #japan #equation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University'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 #farce
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#fox #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National-Louis'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 #stars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #norse
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Old News (permalink)
"He wants to make film withing kangaroos."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1951.
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#kangaroo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ghost light #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mule
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The mystic virtues of the sapphire, from the eleventh century poem "The Lapidarium" by Marbodus, in Colored Gems by W. S. Ward, 1872
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#gem #sapphire #poem
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Old News (permalink)
"Ok guys, is this some kind of stupid joke?"  From Woroni, 2002.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The UFO Conspiracy by Jenny Randles, 1993.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ufo #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #witch #cauldron #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You don't believe in her silly ouija, do you?"  From McClure's, 1920.  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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#ouija #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney 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 #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The troubled waters of the Gulf of Wo."  From The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells and illustrated by A. D. Blashfield, 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 #giantess #crying #tiny man #sorrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goucher College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"World saved from disaster."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #headline
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July 9, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that New Zealand poet Edwin Z. Canary makes a cameo in this episode of Grave Mood Rings.
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#poet #grave mood rings #edwin z. canary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #1890s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Ever let the fancy roam."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
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#imagination #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 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 #anthropomorphism #snail #insect #1900s #bugs #illustration #ant
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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New music by Sigfus is here performed with lyrics and vocals by Neons Gone Mad.  Our lyrics found themselves rooted in Edda's epic poem of Odin, "Hávamál."  The theme is a quest to decipher mysterious messages, with references to ancient Iceland runes runes as well as modern-day enigmas like Numbers Stations and other weird shortwave coded broadcasts.  The speaker's lonely quest for the runes involves meeting a companion; as stanza #47 of the poem says:
Young was I once, I walked alone,
and bewildered seemed in the way;
then I found me another and rich I thought me,
for man is the joy of man.
But we linked that stanza to #49, which says:
My garments once I gave in the field
to two land-marks made as men;
heroes they seemed when once they were clothed;
'tis the naked who suffer shame!
So there is a subtle implication that the friend our speaker meets is actually a monolith.
The rest of the lyrics are inspired by Christine Tindall.
Black smoke signals
on moonless nights
Unlike 
Boreal arrayed Northern Lights
Arcane
Icelandic runes
Proffer foresight
So

[adapted from Edda's Hávamál, #47]
Young was I once
Walking alone
Bewildered, I
Found a fellow
Joy of man
Sought hidden spells
Graven tokens
Interpreted
Augurs spoken
Time began

Morse code flashes
Ultravi'let
Quite like
Numbers stations
Inviolate
DJs
Playing backwards
Palindromic
LPs

[adapted from Edda's Hávamál, #49]
My garments once
I gave freely
To a menhir
Made genteelly
Naked shame
That landmark seemed
A vanquisher
Dressed in my clothes
A languisher
Not my name

[adapted from Edda's Hávamál, #79]
All will prove true
Asked of the runes
High powers wrought
Passed down from gods
Time outran

[adapted from Edda, #137, 163]
Myself to mine
Own self given
Secrets safest
Known to but one
Songs are sung

Black smoke signals
on moonless nights
Unlike 
Boreal ar-
rayed Northern Lights
Shortwave
Stations broadcast
Imagal noise 
Like
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#music video #runes #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #haunted clockwork #sigfus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Bridge of St. Benezet (Avignon).  From Shadowland, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #bridge #france
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Omar Khayyám, from the endpapers of Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #calligraphy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tower #omar khayyam #turret
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Homographia by William Stevens (1806).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #triangle #geometry #feet #bigfoot #1800s #art
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1934 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
You knew about the other side of the mirror; lesser-known is the other side of the clock.  From The Other Side of the Clock: Stories Out of Time, Out of Place by Philip Van Doren Stern, 1969.
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#vintage book #book #clock
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Old News (permalink)
"Alarm rings but no one answers."  From The Gateway, 1965.
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#alarm #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Find the tiny men for a sense of scale.  From The Century, 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 #mountain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Denison University's 1891 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #tiny men
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Old News (permalink)
"Walk with the dead in the moonlight."  From The Aberree, 1959.
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#necromancy #moonlight #vintage headline #headline
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
The temporal anomaly of course is in the bottom right corner.  From Tufts University's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock tower #1970s #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#donkey costume #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goucher College's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #weightless #woman #vintage woman #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Weak, tired, nervous."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #vintage ad #tired #nervous #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Bridges, by Clare Kummer:

***
ENID: (A little troubled) My name is Birdsall--Enid Birdsall.
PENFIELD: Well--can we do anything about it?
***


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #insect #cricket #musician #bugs
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July 8, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored by this review over at Dabodab:
Video Series Review: Grave Mood Rings
by Briyan Frederick
In an unexpected yet delightful twist of nostalgia and absurdity, Jonathan Caws-Elwitt has introduced us to Grave Mood Rings,” a web series crafted alongside Craig Conley and Michael Warwick (of Captive Audience and Mystery Arts fame). This series is a carriage ride of humor that blends vampire lore with the most iconic clichés of the 1970s.
For a bit of personal context—as someone who was once nicknamed Barnabas Collins by schoolmates due to my hair—this show resonates on a unique level. Watching “Grave Mood Rings” feels like revisiting a beloved, albeit twisted, chapter of television history.
Each “emptive” episode runs just a few minutes but is packed with layered seventies tropes presented through gauze-lensed scenes. You can viscount on each episode to deliver absurd twists and puns forced through plastic teeth. The Viscount playing an invisible organ and singing with said teeth quickly became my favorite recurring element. His character embodies the blend of humor and homage that makes this series so engaging.
The artist or label describes the show as a mix of vampire humor and 1970s elements such as pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and mood rings. (And that’s just the credits preface). “Grave Mood Rings” cleverly parodies slow-moving Gothic soap operas like “Dark Shadows” and the Canadian series “Strange Paradise.” This creative concoction culminates in a series that is both a satire and a love letter to the past.
The setting—a castle—hosts a colorful array of characters, including:
  • A Groovy Doctor: A phlebotomist who adds a tongue-in-cheek nod to the show’s vampiric theme.
  • A Jolly Housekeeper: Complete with her own laugh track, she brings a meta-comedic touch reminiscent of classic sitcoms.
  • A Werewolf Vicar: Infusing the Gothic atmosphere with humorous howls.
  • An Arch-Nemesis Riddler: Donning a Sphinx mask, he adds an aura of mystery and mischief.

Corny wordplay, bizarre sing-alongs, and even haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings. The humor is in line with sketch comedy classics like MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV, making “Grave Mood Rings” a refreshing addition to the genre.

Jonathan’s invitation to explore the series led me to the Grave Mood Rings playlist on YouTube. It’s a surreal journey into a world where vampires groove with werewolves and laugh-tracked housekeepers. It’s an experience replete with humor, nostalgia, and a touch of the absurd. Whether you have a penchant for Gothic soap operas or a soft spot for 1970s kitsch, this series offers a uniquely entertaining escape.

So, if you’re intrigued by the idea of witnessing a Viscount sing through plastic teeth or simply crave a good laugh, “Grave Mood Rings” is well worth your time. Dive into this wonderfully off-the-wall sendup and prepare for a nostalgic, yet refreshingly original ride.

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Hailed as "the best series running at this time" (thanks, Billy Brujo Show!), it's Grave Mood Rings.
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was penned by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#humor #satire #prof. oddfellow #vampire #detective #video #grave mood rings #sleuth
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"What are their names?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #1960s #illustration #word puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 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 #wolf #little red riding hood #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's cat measuring a bat is from Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat #anthropomorphism #cat #illustration #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 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 #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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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 #earth #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Is your child too clever?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Your Eyelids Are Growing Heavy by Barbara Paul.
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#hypnosis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1964.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #musician #elizabethan era
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#magician #vintage book #rabbit #book #top hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Firelight Fairy Book by Henry Beston, 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 #fairy tale #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Denison University's 1891 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 #singer
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Old News (permalink)
"But—why, but how come."  The full-page headline from Local 1-S News, 1990.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #footprints
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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 #wind #windmill
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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 #diving #vintage yearbook #yearbook #leaf
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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 #mop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #kilt #pipe smoker #1930s
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July 7, 2024

Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Effects of changes of the weather."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1887.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #weather #vintage headline #illustration #hair style #headline #1880s
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Old News (permalink)
"Home of dukes and donkeys."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#donkey #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #illustration
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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 #insect #bug #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #lion #mouse
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1916.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #devil #rude awakening #bullhorn #director
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A trasformed creature."  From Chatterbox, 1916.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #transformation #flying dog #all dogs go to heaven #winged dog #dog angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook #bang
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Bradley Tech, 1928.
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#poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia Teachers College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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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 #father time
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying head
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Epigrams of Eve by Sophie Irene Loeb and illustrated by Ruby Lind, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #women #vintage women #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Denison University's 1891 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #food
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Old News (permalink)
"Learning how to 'live' after we 'die.'"  From The Aberree, 1960.
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#life after death #afterlife #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's unclear whether the elephant is telling hilarious French jokes, whether the people are laughing at his poor French accent, or whether it's something else.  From Tufts University's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #french #smart animal
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'm married ... but I still need love."  From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1953.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage ad #marriage #1950s #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Telling the Truth: A Novel of Analysis, by William Hewlett:

***
The play is emphatically not the thing.
***
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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 #knight #illustration
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July 6, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored for our Magic Words: A Dictionary to be citied in a BBC News Brasil article about the magic word abracadabra.
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#magic words #abracadabra
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Demonize, if you must": from "Undertaking Darkness," a twist on vampire lore in Grave Mood Rings.
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#vampire #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"Like we said, we'll print anything."  From The Omen, 1997.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crocodile #monkey #1900s #illustration #up a tree
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Frost "from the land of the pointed firs" (bottom photo).  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.
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#frost
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Old News (permalink)
"Two stars that will suddenly vanish."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#astronomy #star #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Orion's dogs and Little Bear.  From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 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 #constellation #bear #dogs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Get busy."  From Ohio State's 1919 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #get busy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #hippo #eaten alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #genie #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #winter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"The blah must go on."  From Motion Picture Classic, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #vintage headline #blah #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown University School of Medicine's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #slingshot #scalpel #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some of the best seahorses are dragonized.  "Sea-horse dragonized."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #dragon #seahorse #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #cat people
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #vintage hollywood #hollywood #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1790s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Abeniki Caldwell by Carolyn Wells, 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 #duel #pistol
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July 5, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Our very own Grave Mood Rings has been hailed on Reddit as a genuine WTF series and likened to the hilarious cult horror series The Heart, She Holler from Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.
"I feel as though my whole day will be different from here on, just don't know what or how as yet" —BigCrackZ
"Unsettlingly fascinating for sure" —No-Bees
"Bizarre performances" —Percolated_aspie
Reminiscent of the weird VHS tape in The Ring series —alinearis
Catch up with this playlist of all the episodes to date.
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#grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"Is Mars alive or dead?  Astronomers giving up hope."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#life on mars #mars #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Noah's Art by Rumer Godden, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse #noah's ark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #axe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Father Time.  From Swarthmore's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#beard #father time #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Valhalla built by beams of light.  From Shadowland, 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 #stage design #castle in the air
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A Page of Swords from a genie lamp.  From North Adams State College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tarot #genie lamp #page of swords
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's weasel watching lynx is from How It Came About Stories by Frank Linderman and illustrated by Carle Michel Boog, 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 #lynx #weasel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Delta State's 1934 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 #sledgehammer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Minute Stories by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Josephine H. Bruce, 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 #crow #deer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, July 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 #cat #horror #giant cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #gnome #fairy #elf #animal attack #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How they treat the sparrows in Norway and Sweden in winter."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1899.
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#birdhouse
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Rollo's Wild Oat, by Clare Kummer

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Old News (permalink)
"Man's head is missing."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#severed head #decapitated #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Nature might stand up and say: 'This is John.'"  From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Told to imagine himself three feet behind his head, the student asked, "Bare? or with shoes?"  From The Aberree, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #feet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Why I don't like dangerous dates."  From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1953.
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#vintage headline #dating #headline
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July 4, 2024

Old News (permalink)
"Gleam of beautiful light."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#light #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hen versus hawk: which do you wager to win?  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 #chicken #animal fight #hen #illustration #hawk
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #fourth of july #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #oz #1900s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.
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#book dedication
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Old News (permalink)
"Scared to death by lodge 'goat.'"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#goat #initiation #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Reserve University'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 #bird #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #flag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure #curtains
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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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#spirit writing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage 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 #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #anthropomorphism #explosion #fireworks #firecracker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wabash's 1922 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The dilapidated house."  From Chatterbox, 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 #owl #ruins
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1996 yearbook.

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

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#rainy day #umbrella #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage men
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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 #insects #ex libris #bugs #bookplate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Woman's College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #panther
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Mediumship of Jack Webber by Harry Edwards, 1941.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage photo #levitation #seance
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #phonograph #his master's voice #1930s
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July 3, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Romans by Alfred Duggan and illustrated by Richard Powers, 1964.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #roman #illustration #plow
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Old News (permalink)
"People who live in darkness."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#darkness #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #easter bunny #vintage magazine #holidays combined #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I dine quickly, then try to read, but I do not comprehend the words."  From Modern Ghosts, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 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 #1920s #ballet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1916.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Hays State's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#umbrella #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #camera #photographer #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There sat a great white owl."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
As we learn in the caption, rumor has it that Black Sheep tends toward the discomfort of overheating.  From Mother Goose Secrets as told by the story gnome to Barbara Webb Bourjaily and illustrated by Joe King, 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 #shepherd #sheep #black sheep
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1931 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #venice #gondola
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Human Culture, 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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#phrenology #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Grammar of the English Sentence by Jonathan Rigdon, 1903.
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#sentence diagram #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox #lion #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #mountain
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July 2, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #chicken #rooster #illustration #hat #vintage hat #vintage hair #hair #chanticleer
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fields and Fencerows by Porter & Hansen and illustrated by Hugh Spencer & Ottilie Foy, 1937.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #serpent #snake #animal attack #uroboros #ouroboros #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #dancing #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #anthropomorphism #faces in things #1920s #thread #sewing #illustration #needle #thumble
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #marriage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1925 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 #peacock #yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cockatoo #crying
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Earth bowling.  From Albion College's 1927 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 #bowling #cape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #dog #rabbit
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The Right Word (permalink)
"To be read aloud awkwardly."  From The Medium, Poems by Theodore Russell Weiss, 1965.
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#poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 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 #giant #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mandala #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #key
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell, 1911.
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#occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of ten crystal ball pictures in Wilson College's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #occult diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #war and peace #illustration #men fighting
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Old News (permalink)
"Testing your pet for ESP."  From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage headline #esp #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome:

[The theatrical tropes explored here were probably pretty obvious targets for ridicule even in 1906; but some of JKJ's observations amused me despite that.]

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We should not care to be the client of a farcical comedy stage lawyer. Legal transactions are trying to the nerves under the most favorable circumstances; conducted by a farcical stage lawyer, the business would be too exciting for us.

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The adventuress is like the proverbial cat as regards the number of lives she is possessed of. You never know when she is really dead. Most people like to die once and have done with it, but the adventuress, after once or twice trying it, seems to get quite to like it, and goes on giving way to it, and then it grows upon her until she can't help herself, and it becomes a sort of craving with her.
This habit of hers is, however, a very trying one for her friends and husbands—it makes things so uncertain. Something ought to be done to break her of it. Her husbands, on hearing that she is dead, go into raptures and rush off and marry other people, and then just as they are starting off on their new honeymoon up she crops again, as fresh as paint. It is really most annoying.

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Everybody is more or less rude and insulting to every body else on the stage; they call it repartee there! We tried the effect of a little stage "repartee" once upon some people in real life, and we wished we hadn't afterward.

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It is very curious, by the bye, how deserted all public places become whenever a stage character is about. It would seem as though ordinary citizens sought to avoid them[....]
As for Trafalgar Square, the hero always chooses that spot when he wants to get away from the busy crowd and commune in solitude with his own bitter thoughts; and the good old lawyer leaves his office and goes there to discuss any very delicate business over which he particularly does not wish to be disturbed.
And they all make speeches there....But it is all right, because there is nobody near to hear them. As far as the eye can reach, not a living thing is to be seen. Northumberland Avenue, the Strand, and St. Martin's Lane are simply a wilderness. The only sign of life about is a 'bus at the top of Whitehall, and it appears to be blocked.
How it has managed to get blocked we cannot say. It has the whole road to itself, and is, in fact, itself the only traffic for miles round. Yet there it sticks for hours. The police make no attempt to move it on and the passengers seem quite contented.

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The people on the stage think very highly of the good old man, but they don't encourage him much after the first act. He generally dies in the first act.
[...]
He is a most unfortunate old gentleman. Anything he is mixed up in seems bound to go wrong. If he is manager or director of a bank, smash it goes before even one act is over. His particular firm is always on the verge of bankruptcy. We have only to be told that he has put all his savings into a company—no matter how sound and promising an affair it may always have been and may still seem—to know that that company is a "goner."
No power on earth can save it after once the good old man has become a shareholder.
If we lived in stage-land and were asked to join any financial scheme, our first question would be:
"Is the good old man in it?" If so, that would decide us.

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There is something very wonderful about the disguising power of cloaks and hats upon the stage. This comes from the habit people on the stage have of recognizing their friends, not by their faces and voices, but by their cloaks and hats.
A married man on the stage knows his wife, because he knows she wears a blue ulster and a red bonnet. The moment she leaves off that blue ulster and red bonnet he is lost and does not know where she is.
She puts on a yellow cloak and a green hat, and coming in at another door says she is a lady from the country, and does he want a housekeeper?
[...]
There is something about her that strangely reminds him of his darling Nell—maybe her boots and dress, which she has not had time to change.

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The thing that the stage sailor most craves in this life is that somebody should shiver his timbers.
"Shiver my timbers!" is the request he makes to every one he meets. But nobody ever does it.
***
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Old News (permalink)
"Pupils smoke in defiance."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.  
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#smoking #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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July 1, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From P's and Q's: A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement by Sallie B. Tannahill, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #calligraphy #hand lettering #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal attack #monkey #bull #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Peace in heart needed for a better world."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.
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#peace #vintage headline #advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 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 #carousel #merry-go-round
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #clown #oz #illustration #hula hoop
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Old News (permalink)
"This tough old world.  Fate, wishing to be crueler than the grave, chose a weakling for its victim."  From Munsey's Magazine, 1926.
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#fate #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Normal School'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 #in the clouds #flowers #the people could fly
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Old News (permalink)
"Take away all but the piano."  From The Instructor, 1958.
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#piano #minimalism #vintage headline #headline #downsizing
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
"The Rice of the Papacy as it Ware."  From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.
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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 #castle #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Often at night he spoke with fiery eloquence."  From Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales by Charles B. Cory, 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 #fire #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro 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 #queen #elizabethan #queen elizabeth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Evil Eye by Frederick Thomas Elworthy.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #good luck #amulet #necklace
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#personal demons #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's skeleton filling his water gun at a drinking fountain is from Emory University's 1987 yearbook. 

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #costume #drinking fountain #1980s #water gun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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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 #anthropomorphism #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tale of Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 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 #rabbit #hiding
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sea monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rebecca Chase, 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 #dog #1900s #illustration
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