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July 31, 2025

Book of Whispers (permalink)
A fairy whispers, "Joy is coming — wait!"  From Wee Wisdom1928.
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Her one deformity."  From Youth's Companion, 1918.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots #1920s #ladybug #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"You can talk with friends via your subsconscious while you are asleep!"  From The New Liberator Weekly, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Pinocchio by Emily Gray, 1911.
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Old News (permalink)
A two-week vacation with a lion.  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The dreadful fate of Mr. Punch."  From St. Nicholas, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #cockatoo #mr. punch #doll #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #hippo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rush Medical College's 1894 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marriage #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #satyr #pan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1911 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #elephant #handstand #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"The strange growing in Martinique."  From Fate Magazine, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Mocktails unite women."  From Kansas State University's 2007 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Options Magazine, 1992.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #alice in wonderland #mud #tweedledee #tweedledum #political parties
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern Louisiana Institute's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage yearbook #smoke #1940s #reek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #pear #giant pear #giant fruit #fruit #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1910.
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#cat #vintage photo #kitten #1910s #photo
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July 30, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #comet #starry night #illustration #zero #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From People and Places by Horn, McBroom & Bishop and illustrated by Sperry, Stein & Paus, 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 #native american #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Healthful Living, Based on the Essentials of Physiology by Jesse Feiring Williams, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #hot and cold #diagram #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
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#vintage illustration #1930s #airplane #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In the stiff way that puppets share."  From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #puppet #marionette #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox #duck #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Devil has advantage.  Man foolishly gives Satan many openings."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
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#devil #satan #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #three headed
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Old News (permalink)
"A rag, a bone, a hank of hair, and a bit of lantern bane."  From Ohio State University's 1960 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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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 #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity #spear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Red fox cubs, from Photo-Era, 1913.
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#vintage photo #fox
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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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #moon #man in the moon #darkness #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bluffton College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #snake #animal attack #cobra
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1928 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #viking #endpapers #ex libris
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if late Victorian women were always in a bustle."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #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 #illustration #invisible man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Those blood dinners?"  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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook #banquet #illustration #blood #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I want a dear little doll that looks like the queen."  From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #doll
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July 29, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two years after "Hands Across the Sea" (1899), there was a ripple of dimples round the world.  From Youth's Companion, 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 #world #earth #1900s #floating heads #illustration #dimples
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Glenn's nickname.  From Wee Wisdom, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #nickname #peachy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #sled #sledge #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #potato #illustration #vegetable people
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Old News (permalink)
"Hunger dictates new literature."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1945.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rat #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kutnar, Son of Pic, written and illustrated by George Langford, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #giant #caveman #wrestling
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Old News (permalink)
"Eat ice cream every day.  It is healthful."  From Wabash College's 1923 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #ice cream #vintage headline #headline #bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Early Chinese hieroglyphs.  From Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1932 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From On the World's Roof by J. Macdonald Oxley, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #bear #hunter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mule
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Old News (permalink)
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#news #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing card #club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dust #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I walked slowly toward the mirror, and then suddenly looked at myself."  From The Strand Magazine, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #anthropomorphism #animal headed #hybrid #rabbit man #1920s #rabbit headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In time to save the collie, but too late to save himself."  From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #dog #train tracks #animal rescue #collie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singer
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling, by PJ Fitzsimmons:

***
a poem that I wrote to and about Penelope Doncaster, comparing her to a hazelnut

***
a maid that folds towels according to their personality

***
[spoken to a sham medium]
"You look like you haven't seen a ghost."

***
It just lay there looking promising but inert, like batter before the application of heat.

***
[asked by someone who has been hearing about how his nephew has made a big success of card counting (i.e., in gambling venues)--but who doesn't know what that is]
"What is the measure of success in the card counting field? The number of cards counted?"
[see also the attached snippet about the card counter]
***

Bonus name:
Lord Snowsill-Willit

P.S. This may be the only book I've ever read that gave me reason to exclaim to myself, as I entered the home stretch, "I *knew* the duck would come into it somehow!"




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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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July 28, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Full disclosure: I'm not ready to go from that to this in cooking.  From Youth's Companion1915.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It 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 written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #transformation #map #ireland #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The really big ones don't get away."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #gin #alcohol
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #staring into the depths
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Old News (permalink)
"This is my maze, day to day."  From Franklin College's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #maze #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #dog #animal trick #nursery rhyme
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beaver College's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #genie #mask #genie bottle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Thoughts at 4 a.m."  From Improvement Era, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #insomnia #sleepless #up all night #wide awake #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Central Michigan University's 1982 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1980s #paper bag head
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #ink #red ink #pen #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene University's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lyre #knife
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #world #vintage ad #hat #1910s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook #chemistry
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #trouble #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bed #beehive #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield State Normal School's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #practical joke #jester #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #whip #illustration
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July 27, 2025

Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1923.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #dream #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #illustration #house #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
I like to play cake, too!  From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962. 
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Old News (permalink)
"Cats helped to win the west."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1936.
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#cat #1930s #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #tent
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"The sun has no terrors."  From Photo-Era Magazine, 1911.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heart of Things by Edward Clarence Farnsworth, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #star of david #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry's 1945 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Pigs or figs!  Must we eat hog to live?"  From How to Live 100 Years by Guy Lockwood, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #vegetarianism #pig #meat #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I wish that I might be a thinking stone."  From Wheaton College's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #bed #twin bed #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #barn
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#religion #vintage illustration #good and evil #giant hand #knife
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Snow Ball, by Brigid Brophy:

***
Having no senses of its own, the room could not immerse them in Anna.

***
"It's not me, darling. It's Tom-Tom"....
"Darling, does he like being called by that absurd name?"
"Darling, he gets furious if people don't."

***
the imprecisely naked look of eyes that normally wore spectacles when the spectacles were removed
[It's the word "imprecisely" that makes this quote, imho.]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #babyroussa #babirusa #deer-pig
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July 26, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #beer #magician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #mouse #crying animal #1930s #illustration #crying rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #cow #1900s #alps #switzerland #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #caged animal #zoo #bear #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Using gasoline to do the laundry.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1915. 
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#vintage illustration #illustration #gasoline #bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1917.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #literacy #palm reader #palmistry #vintage headline #chiromancy #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Night of boos."  From Kansas State University's 2007 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #vintage headline #boo #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1931.
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#knight #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #faces in things #turnip #blood from a turnip
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Old News (permalink)
Have we fallen so low that we must "take the elevator up to the world"?  From East Tennessee State University's 1985 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #elevator #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877). 
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#vintage illustration #goose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #doctor #vintage yearbook #scythe #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From India, A Country Study, edited by Heitzman and Worden, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #india
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Woman's College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1922.
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The Right Word (permalink)
Looks like they left out the vowels "I.O.U."  From Broome Community College's 1960 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"My fire is my friend."  From The Century 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fire #fireplace
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chicken #egg #hatched
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Old News (permalink)
"Extrasensory perception in dogs."  From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage headline #esp #headline #psychic pet #psychic dog
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July 25, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Too few consider the dangers of flying rhinos to elephantine tea parties that are out on a limb.  From Wee Wisdom, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #weightless #rhino #1940s #illustration #up a tree #tea party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #sphinx #telescope #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #anthropomorphism #pen and ink #1920s #illustration #poem
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Old News (permalink)
Here's today's look at a crystal ball through a telescope.  From Youth's Companion, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.

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#vintage illustration #compass #anthropomorphism #1920s #illustration #geometric
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Old News (permalink)
"Is there a relativity theory of marriage?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #relativity #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #cat #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scroll
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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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#alcohol #hot air balloon #airplane #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #capital t #tuba
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #snake #buddha
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The author promised that the reader would live 100 years or money back upon request.  From How to Live 100 Years by Guy Lockwood, 1912.
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#vintage book #longevity #book #author's note
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
George Arliss in "The Devil."  From Wid's Daily, 1921.
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#devil #vintage man #man #george arliss
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Old News (permalink)
"Women who are always tired."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#fatigue #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #food
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The white cheetah."  From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #cheetah
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #heaven #saint #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #saint peter
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Old News (permalink)
"A mink-trimmed hourglass."  From Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#hourglass #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, July-December 1920:

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Horseplay can always be imported from vaudeville.

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material which refuses to materialize [George Chappell]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hanging spectre."  From Fate Magazine, 1956.
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July 24, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pupil's Own Vocabulary Speller 2, illustrated by Mary Highsmith, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #1940s #illustration
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored to be cited in Overcoming Impostor Syndrome by David Sandua.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #puppet #diagram #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Chickadee.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1930s #illustration #chickadee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #buried treasure #fox #1920s #pinocchio #illustration #living toy
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Old News (permalink)
"Microbes ready for all who want them."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage headline #headline #germ #microbe
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Well how should I feel?  I feel worn out.  I always feel worn out."  From Dark Shadows episode 489.
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#worn out #chronic fatigue #tired #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #garage #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #mule
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Old News (permalink)
From Oklahoma State University's 1936 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #vintage headline #headline
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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 the University of Toronto's 1950 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 #singing #moustache #necktie
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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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#alice in wonderland #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's coyote reading a book is from Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #coyote #yearbook #smart animal
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Reblogging is restricted to those who have heard the silent miaow.  From The Silent Miaow by Paul Gallico.  
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#cat #vintage photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#cauldron #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cannibalism #1960s #women #vintage women #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #pussy willow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #burned alive #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Human nature is distrustful of darkness and dark places."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#darkness #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Workbook to Accompany At Play Primer by Hildreth, Roy, et al., 1947. 
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#vintage illustration #snowman #1940s #illustration
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July 23, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Imagine our confusion -- two articles on the same page, one about basketball, and now our radio picks up live sports from the 1920s.  From Youth's Companion, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dominion Language Series Book Two by Daniels, Hall, Matthews & MacKenzie, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #fox #cave #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mammoth Story Book, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fables In Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #fable #frog #1870s #illustration #ox #animal friends
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ancient Times, A History of the Early World, Second Edition by James Henry Breasted, 1935.
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#mummy #vintage illustration #egyptian #illustration #thutmose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #kite #carried away
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #insect #bug #bee #utah #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Read Heads by James Coates, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #anthropomorphism #vintage 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 #bull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caricature, the Wit & Humor of a Nation In Picture, Song and Story, 1914.
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#horse #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
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#vintage illustration #tree #star
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Stone Mather College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #feather #rooster #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Harvard Medical School's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine
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Old News (permalink)
"Spite fence is harmless."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Someday you'll have to pass the money test."  From Cameron State Agricultural College's 1965 yearbook.
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#money #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #lion #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #barrel #clothesline #skin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird
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July 22, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #evolution #eyeglasses #monocle #spectacles #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1951.
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#religion #vintage illustration #goddess #deity #hinduism #illustration #1950s #durga
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #pig #illustration #animal friends #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany Friends and Neighbours by Gray & Monroe, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't send me back!  I knew I had died.  I had no weight, no substance at all.  It was so wonderful I wanted never to return."  From Fate Magazine, 1954.
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#life after death #afterlife #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blue Book, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #tiger
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I don't remember your name, but your fez is familiar."  From The Old Line, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #fez
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #nursery rhyme #pie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue 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 #rowboat
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Old News (permalink)
"'Self defense' no excuse for shooting deer."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#hunting #deer #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Sophocles Aristophanes Agamemnon, night editor."  From the University of Dayton's 1964 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Such Nonsense! by Carolyn Wells, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #cow #poem #purple cow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #modern art #chewing gum #gum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #living toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #monocle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Karmenia, or, What the Spirit Told Me by Lyman E. Stowe, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Broome Community College's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a watchmaker moves with the times."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #watchmaker #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Banner Deadlines, by Joseph Commings:

***
He had a voice like a French flute.
[I liked the sound of this, but I didn't know what a French flute was. Looking it up, I read that a French (open-hole) flute doesn't sound inherently different from a non-French flute--except in a de facto way, insofar as French flutes tend to be higher-quality flutes.]

***
Professor Maybrick, the phony spiritualist...was finally caught with his ectoplasm down.

[later]

"Someone took off his clothes in here," said Konstanz.
"For what reason? To walk around in these drafts in his ectoplasm?"

***
She was knitting an afghan and she was so quiet you could hear a stitch drop.

***
"Duck pin bowling is beyond me."

***
"The architect has designs on me."

***
"Yesterday she lured me into her apartment...Too late I realized I'd stepped into a nest of cobras."
"She had you meet her relatives?" said Banner, highly amused.
"No, I mean real cobras."

***
"I've always wanted to meet you, Senor."
"Where'd you hear of me before?" asked Banner suspiciously.
"This is the first time."

***
"What the mischief became of Hazzard?"
[Ha! "What the mischief" was new to me. But not an original, as "What the mischief are you doing?" has various Google results.]

***
It reported the murder on X Street with as much passion as there is in a recipe for an upside-down cake.
[Upside-down cakes are funny, of course. Which is funnier: Upside-down cake or Baked Alaska?]

***
"I'm not hanging around to pose for animal crackers."
***

Bonuses:
"uneaten canoes of orange" (i.e., unpeeled orange wedges)
"a walking gingersnap"
"wraprascal" (I'd never heard of this name for a kind of overcoat)
Mr. Kermit Gosling

[Special bonus: One of the stories in this collection is called "Stairway to Nowhere." Nice to see that the author arrived early (decades ago) to play along with the "doors to nowhere" theme.]
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From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #paper doll
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July 21, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)


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#dark shadows #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #camel #illustration #jackal #1910s
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
"Red is green and green is red."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#color #vintage headline #green #headline #red
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw University's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #pig #nursery rhyme
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #griffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gryphon #ex libris #bookplate
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Old News (permalink)
"Moving pictures soothe lunatics."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Ohio State University's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#death #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hearse #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #pig
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Old News (permalink)
"Looking back to a forward-looking era."  From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Peterson's Magazine, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
It's a poor scan, but those are peanuts festooning her eyeglasses.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.
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#eyeglasses #1960s #vintage headline #peanuts #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1941 yearbook.
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#sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you one of the vertical dead?  This man stands ... he walks ... he talks ... he goes to work ... he supports a wife and children ... BUT HE IS DEAD!"  From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage ad #living dead #zombie #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California'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 #hot air balloon #illustration #pharmacy
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Old News (permalink)
"Date with a dream."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1945.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hope College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #1920s #illustration #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You must not be afraid."  From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fear #illustration #living toy #toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dreaming #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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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 #making faces
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July 20, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #caterpillar #1940s #rude awakening #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Now every country lane is like the gate of heaven."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#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 #king #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1860s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, His Book by Eva March Tappan and illustrated by Charlotte Harding, 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 #monk #robin hood #1900s #illustration #sheriff of nottingham
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #owl #animals #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's divine falcon is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #pharaoh #illustration #falcon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Alfred E. Neuman as ham radio operator Al Freddy Newham.  From 73 Magazine, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #alfred e. neuman
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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 #beauty and the beast
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #raccoon man
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From New Primer by Walter Hervey & Melvin Hix, and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #sun #dog #faces in things
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Inkwell imps, even as toddlers, are thinking about getting that ink spilled.  From Rockford College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ink imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #insect
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A hand inside a giant powdered donut?  From Woman's College of Georgia's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #doughnut #donut #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Hardly able to move."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southeast Missouri State College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #window #1970s #urbex #home economics
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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.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bunny #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Valparaiso University's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #baseball #jewelry #diamond ring #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"What 'Weejie' told us."  From Fate Magazine, 1955.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#vintage illustration #occult #ouija #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Mysterious Mr. Badman, by W. F. Harvey:

***
Digby watched them go down the High Street arm in arm, like two oddly assorted volumes from the shelves, Daniel Lavender, leather bound, fat and stumpy; Mrs. Lavender, cloth bound, tall and thin.

***
"Plumbers in our part of the world, you must know, have no use for telephones. News of a burst pipe must be broken to them very gently, usually at second or third hand."
***
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #dog #1920s #butter #illustration #heatwave #yes
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July 19, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not a hidden picture puzzle, so pay no attention to the face in the butterfly net.  From The Butterfly Book by W. J. Holland, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #butterfly net #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's letter D feeling like a big D as it looks at mannequin bowlers is from the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bowling #1900s #mannequin #illustration #letter d
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Western Comrade, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration #rich and poor #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #dutch #holland #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1920s #illustration #bobwhite
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #caveman #illustration #prehistoric #stone age
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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 #1930s #illustration #interior design #interior decorating
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Old News (permalink)
"A queer bit of life that went on for 15 years."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dark Shadows episode 832.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #occult #psychokinesis
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
"Ships don't come in; they are brought in."  From Improvement Era, 1932.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ship #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The yeast is west and the west is soused."  From The Goblin, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #cowboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Letters From a Cat by Helen Hunt Jackson and illustrated by Addie Ledyard, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Colonist, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #whiskey #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Just a worm."  From Eastman School of Music's 1927 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 #bandaged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #spinning wheel #nursery rhyme
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1922 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #handstand #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #money #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 #dancing #native american
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July 18, 2025

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We were honored to be featured on PBS: https://youtu.be/SBeTSimdUrg?si=i7aVHNfi7Vs9r7gT&t=222
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#prof. oddfellow #magic words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #kangaroo #lion #1960s #illustration #cricket bat
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Old News (permalink)
"Where to look for the whale in the sky."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#whale #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #pirate ship #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #medieval #fashion #vintage fashion #thirteenth century #illustration #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Furnishing by Anna Hong Rutt, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #map #illustration #prehistoric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Old News (permalink)
You've seen heavy safes and pianos falling in cartoons, but it really happens.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1915. 
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#piano #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
From Suffer and Be Still by Martha Vicinus, 1972.
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#vintage headline #suffering #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lady Green Satin and Her Maid Rosette, translated by Baroness E. Martineau des Chesnez and illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan University of West Virginia's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #moon #man in the moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"The real test is just beginning..."  From The Talon, 1994.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #ax #panther
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Tennessee, Knoxville'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 #bubble pipe #yearbook #soap bubbles #blowing bubbles #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1853.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #bow and arrow #centaur #chiron
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #invisible man
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Old News (permalink)
"Malignant spirit."  From Fate Magazine, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #demon #occult #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "As Dark as Christmas Gets," by Lawrence Block:

"Like Athena from the brow of what's-his-name."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Ugly Face by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #bear #native american #illustration
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July 17, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #broom #1900s #illustration #flying broomstick #curling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #cat #knight #puss in boots #1920s #illustration #little miss muffet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #money #tarot #illustration #1910s
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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 #map #illustration #marco polo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #tom thumb #puss in boots #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sharp Eyes, written and illustrated by William Hamilton Gibson, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #ornament #1920s #design #illustration #square
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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 The Strand Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #disease #influenza
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Puzzles and Games :: Tic Tac Toe Story Generator (permalink)
This game of Tic Tac Toe can be decoded as poem with our Tic Tac Toe Story Generator.  From Indiana University's 1948 yearbook.  
INSTRUCTIONS:
In alternate turns, complete a row, column, or diagonal with three X’s or O’s. Each X and O has a discrete unit of meaning, as detailed in the Dictionary of One-Letter Words. Choose and write a letter meaning alongside each X and O placed in the grid; don’t repeat a letter meaning within the same game. Number each turn on the grid, to establish the linear progression of the story. When the game is finished, use the sequence of key words to construct your story, adding connecting phrases as necessary.

Click here for a printable template.  Thanks to Gary Barwin for inspiration!
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chalkboard #tic tac toe #1940s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An animal totem mask, from Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 1923. 
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#vintage illustration #mask #african
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #alcohol
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Old News (permalink)
"My house is clean again!"  From The Nine Unknown by Talbot Mundy, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #statue #deity #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1912 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Old News (permalink)
"I like being ten feet six!"  From Australian Womens' Weekly, 1961.
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#giant #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1935.
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#cat #vintage photo #1930s #photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal #illustration #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "Lelia and Lulia Lobster" by Joshua F. Crowell, in The Children's Book, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #anthropomorphism #lobster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #clown #puppet #marionette #illustration
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July 16, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's too little discussed: the tooth fairies bring hammers to chisel out the whitest, daintiest teeth.  From Wee Wisdom, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #1920s #dentist #illustration #tooth fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #magic trick #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #monster #fairy tale #1890s #illustration #many headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Life, A First Book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan & Vernon L. Kellogg, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fish #1900s #illustration #electric ray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1915.  Via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #vintage postcard #illustration #vintage automobile #tiny car #car towing #automobile #1910s #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Long Life of Magical Objects by Allegra Iafrate.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #magical object
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you forget the baton, you'll never get off the ground.  From Wesleyan University of West Virginia's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #violin #conductor #musician
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Old News (permalink)
"Men scarce in Canada."  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#canada #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandies #kissing #french #men kissing #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Self-Help English Lessons, Book Three by Julia Helen Wohlfarth & John J. Mahoney and illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #swing #soap bubbles #blowing bubbles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #costume #chess #chess costume #chessmen #chessman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Homesick, lonesome."  From Northern Illinois State Teachers College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying #lonely #homesick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #snake charmer
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Here's health to you."  From Toronto Normal School's 1937 yearbook.
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#vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wink #1930s #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lynx #illustration #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Arctic Tutankhamen, placid in oblivion.  From God's Frozen Children by Harold McCracken, 1930.
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#mummy #frozen
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Fourword: It's all in fun."  From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #foreword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #1870s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1957 E. C. Glass yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rocket #illustration #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland by Howard Roger Garis and illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #illustration #uncle wiggily
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July 15, 2025

Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #boat #1920s #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Baroness starts new fad in London -- takes monkey to dinner."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #1900s #illustration #baroness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #hinduism #dancer #1960s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A still from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #1930s #makeup #illustration #wasp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #illustration #strong man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1932.
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#cat #vintage photo #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.
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#vintage illustration #boat #mouse #duck #illustration #toy #toy duck #anti-coloring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #chinese #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From SoftSide, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #snake #dungeon #treasure chest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bharathi Magazine, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Karmenia, or, What the Spirit Told Me by Lyman E. Stowe, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #solar system #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 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 #anthropomorphism #faces in things #beet #vegetable people #vegetable #sugar beet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #lost at sea #vintage yearbook #book #stranded at sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Knocked into the water by his gun's recoil.  From Chatterbox, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #falling #boat #recoil #kickback
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Indecent Pleasures, by William Targ:

***
He eats contracts with his breakfast cereal.
[Re. a superstar lawyer / book agent the author knows. Not "reads," but "eats"!!]
***

[Bonus: a "sleeveless errand," an expression for a fool's errand that I'd never heard before.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #sausage #illustration #1950s
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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 #bathtub #1910s #summer school
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
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#vintage illustration #forest #woods #1920s #illustration
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July 14, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Is a soap bubble pipe in bed a gateway to the opium den?  From Wee Wisdom, 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 #fairy #bubble pipe #soap bubble #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #native american #1920s #raven #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book C by Donalda Dickie, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #cowboy #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Quaint animals that must go."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #england #torquay
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown College's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #vintage man #man
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Old News (permalink)
"Would not live his life again."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Precursors (permalink)
Before the film 9 1/2 Weeks, there was the film of Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks.  From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1909 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Yorker, 1925.  (Hat tip: Jonathan.)
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#vintage illustration #cigar #pince-nez
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #vintage man #moustache #man #half and half #half dressed #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "This Was Your Life" (1972) by J. T. C.
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#vintage illustration #angel #afterlife #life review
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana 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 #cobweb
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There come those times in the life of every women when she feels that she must wash her hair at once.  And then she does it."  From Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber, 1912.
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#hair washing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #on top of the world #faces in tings
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Old News (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #headline #detroit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State 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 #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #christianity #cross #ireland
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #staring into the depths
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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July 13, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is the recipe for making cats.  From Wee Wisdom, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #poem #recipe #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #1920s #hypnotist #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 #monk #robin hood #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #punchinello #quill pen
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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 #weathervane #rooster #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #giant #gulliver #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kettering College of Medical Arts' 1983 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Mind a blank for weeks."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sorceress of Rome by Nathan Gallizier and illustrated by The Kinneys, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #sorceress
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Old News (permalink)
"One man's moral, another man's sin."  From Eastern Michigan University's 1975 yearbook.
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#sin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #morality
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photo-Era Magazine, 1919.
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#cat #vintage photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egyptian #vintage yearbook #yearbook #beetle #scarab
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Old News (permalink)
"I enjoyed my fruit-cheese-and-nut meals."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage ad #vegetarian #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars #rolling pin #bump on the head
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Old News (permalink)
Say what you will, but we believe black dogs are fact, not fancy.  From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 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 #illustration #big nose #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Take it from us ... and who the hell hasn't?"  From 73 Magazine, 1966.
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#vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death and the Conjuror, by Tom Mead:

***
His face, round as a dinner plate, was quite handsome in an unimaginative kind of way. It was what a small child might have drawn if tasked with drawing a hero or a film star.
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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 #rhino #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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July 12, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The arrival of God's bat.  From Wee Wisdom, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #bat #night #1920s #rude awakening #illustration #holy bat #god's bat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #animals #1930s #illustration #barn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling when a goat, dog, and cat watch you sip hot milk.  The caption reads, "She made him lie on a couch and sip hot milk."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Golden Links in the Chain That Connects Mother, Home and Heaven by Mrs. J. P. Newman, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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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 #wolf #aesop #lamb
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Old News (permalink)
"I'm through with idleness."  From Improvement Era, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling when paper faces peer out while you're unconscious.  From The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #mask #illustration
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"Merciful God!  Can this be true, or am I dreaming?"  From A Knight in Homespun by John Charles Spoth, 1909.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1902 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 #goose #people who look like animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caricature, the Wit & Humor of a Nation In Picture, Song and Story, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Cumberland County College's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caveman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #mask #lantern #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #lion #winged lion #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From LaSalle-Peru-Oglesby Junior College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#witch #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #hopeless #no hope #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1948 yearbook.

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#anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #tiger #baseball #1940s
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Old News (permalink)
"Is there a fiend.  Mysteries still unsolved."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Chowan University's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #cat #vintage yearbook #the end
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July 11, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #angel #1960s #illustration #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English In Action 1 by Tressler & Shelmadine, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #dust #1930s #illustration #rug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Magnificent Milo, written and illustrated by Joan Balfour Payne (1958).
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#vintage illustration #harpy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
THe Goofinoff clan of Slobovia.  From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #1970s #illustration
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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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I guess I haven't refused you the way the dames in the novels do it."  From Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #rejection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's levitating hat is from Ohio State University's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #1940s #hat
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Old News (permalink)
"Face future with smile."  From The Daily Colonist, 1932.
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#optimism #smile #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Face in the Pool, written and illustrated by J. Allen St. John, 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 #tiger #long hair #braided hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ball State Teachers College's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #lamp #man #car trunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #charles dickens
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Old News (permalink)
You've heard that one can "die laughing," and this confirms it: "Joke killed him."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy
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Old News (permalink)
"The mysterious power of purple."  From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#vintage headline #purple #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1940s #doll #living toy #toy #living doll
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Old News (permalink)
"Brilliant, but in difficulties."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From stories about Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia, by Frank Gruber:

***
Buck was so lean that he had to stand twice in order to cast a shadow.
[It seems this is a folkloric witticism, not Gruber's creation, but I'd never heard it before.]
***

[Bonus: a Mr. and Mrs. Lanyard]
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#shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #1920s #illustration
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July 10, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This occult technique is no longer taught in children's magazines.  From Wee Wisdom1923.
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#vintage illustration #occult #esoteric #1920s #cloud #in the clouds #illustration #thought transference
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This snowman shrank quite a bit over 20 years.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#snowman #vintage photo #1920s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #1930s #flowers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Building My House of Health by Jessie Lummis, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #starry night #night #1920s #shooting star #falling star #illustration #house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bluet flowers.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #flower #1930s #illustration #bluet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany More Friends and Neighbours, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #illustration #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #1960s #illustration #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #fable #native american #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #precipice #war #cliff #blindfolded #1900s #vintage magazine #soldier #illustration #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #smoking #smoke #cigarette
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Old News (permalink)
"Forgot name of his first wife."  From the Duluth Herald, 1911.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #vintage headline #headline #forgetfulness
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
Great news -- this says there are only seven more weeks to go.  From The Johnson Journal, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #tall ship #ship #sihouette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1909.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy #elf #silhouette
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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.
77098 20607
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #robert louis stevenson #wolf #lion #musical animal #lamb
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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 the College of William and Mary's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Old News (permalink)
"Fun among the 'crocodiles.'"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#1960s #vintage headline #headline #waterskiing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #brain #gears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Take One magazine, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #christopher lee #horror #vampire #vintage magazine #magazine
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Consider the cat."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1921.
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#cat #vintage photo #1920s #kitten #photo
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July 9, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Five generations of a violent temper.  From Popular Science Monthly, 1916.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The mindblowing truth about what mirage water is made of, on Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #puppet #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"No more toothache, unless we want it."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #alice in wonderland #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Mutual sympathetic society."  From Swarthmore College's 1905 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heavens by Amedée Guillemin, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand Magazine, 1920.
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#snake #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Please see that this raccoon gets off at Mt. Ararat!"  From Northwestern University's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #costume #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Human Culture, 1904.
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Old News (permalink)
"Is marriage a failure.  One man thinks it depends on the individual."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #hatching #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Look About Us by Gerald Craig, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #insect #fly #bugs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of the Holy Cross's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ruffled collar #ruff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare to see Jesus depicted as a twofold deity.  From Together, 1973.
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Old News (permalink)
"Uniquely qualified to clean your sheets."  From Tufts University's 1983 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"And you must try and pretend that yesterday never happened."  From Dark Shadows episode 638.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #shakespeare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hamlet #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Another mysterious cremation."  From Fate Magazine, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #spontaneous combustion #burned alive #vintage headline #headline
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July 8, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #human headed #1970s #chess #illustration #chess piece #nixon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A talking shirt collar is left out to dry.  From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
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Old News (permalink)
"Glue your eyes to the ball."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hunter #blunderbuss
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #nest #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #william tell #apple
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Old News (permalink)
"How many goodly creatures are there here."  From the University of Evansvilles 1969 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Max Pechstein, "Our Father which art in heaven (Vaterunser Der Du bist im Himmel)," 1921.  Via MoMA.
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#vintage illustration #deity #god #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'asino, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Made love with his fingers, and widow got tired of it."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#vintage headline #headline #sign language
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rush Medical College's 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #up all night #vintage yearbook #yearbook #midnight oil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Karmenia, or, What the Spirit Told Me by Lyman E. Stowe, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #1910s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From stories by Erle Stanley Gardner:

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"Do you think money grows on bushes?"
[RQA: No, it grows on trees.]

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Du Nord's glasses quivered with indignation

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"Begin in the middle, and work simultaneously toward both ends."
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[Bonus snippet attached. (And I note that "Wiggy" is to Winifred Ilsa Graham as my own character Sippy is to Silly Image Pillowhead.)]

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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 #illustration #cradle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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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.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #1900s #illustration #cat and dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration #paper doll
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July 7, 2025

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 #whale #1900s #animal fight #illustration #sperm whale #cachalot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's jackal eating a crab.  From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rainbow Cat by Rose Fyleman and illustrated by Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #rabbit #bunny #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #illustration
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Sun Dial by Austin Dobson and illustrated by George Wharton Edwards, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #peacock #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Doings in Michigan.  Man crawls a mile on his hands and knees."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May your day be free of unwanted wyverns.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1942 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #upside down #telescope
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #greek #winged men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Adrift in a sea of mud."  From Take One magazine, 1967.
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#vintage headline #mud #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson College's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgia Southern College's 1978 yearbook.

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#demon #mask #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Colliers, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #uncle sam #bathtub
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #brownie
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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.
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#vintage illustration #clown #tea #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #broom
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Old News (permalink)
"You will survive after death."  From Fate Magazine, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #life after death #seance #vintage headline #headline #1950s
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July 6, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The classic Match Game gets spoofed within the Grave Mood Rings universe.
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#mustache #WTF #moustache #video #grave mood rings #indie comedy #match game #game show
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1910s #lorgnette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #hunter #1860s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, illustrated by Edwin John Prittie, 1923.  
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #robin hood #1920s #archer #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Dog goes to church.  The light of animals' eyes."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#dog #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hatchling #egg
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Old News (permalink)
"I am a child of 1973."  From Franklin College's 1973 yearbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Guide for Drawing the Acanthus by James Page, 1886.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we thought he was looking at his dog through a book.  From Caricature, the Wit & Humor of a Nation In Picture, Song and Story, 1914.
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#book #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's semi-transparent ghost diver is from Ohio State University's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #1940s #diver #swimmer
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Old News (permalink)
"Mistake in his license.  Man got one to hunt instead of to wed."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage headline #headline
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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.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Jesus ... master psychic."  From Fate Magazine, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #jesus #psychic #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How the cat got her breakfast."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #cat #bell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California'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 #singing #illustration #glee club
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Old News (permalink)
"Got a signal to radiate?"  From 73 Magazine, 1965.
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#radio #vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, by Baroness Orczy:

***
“I saw a gentleman at Scotland Yard,” she explained, after a short preamble, “because Miss—er—Lulu Fay came to me at the hotel this very morning....”

[From here on, "Miss—er—Lulu Fay" becomes a sort of "Ha! Clifford" (remember him from Rachel Ferguson?), being repeatedly referred to in this way by the narrator.]

***
The mysterious woman in the big hat was still the chief subject of leading articles in the papers....There were caricatures and picture post-cards in all the shop windows of a gigantic hat covering the whole figure of its wearer, only the feet, and a very long and pointed chin, protruding from beneath the enormous brim.
[No illustration for this, but the author has done an excellent job of evoking it, imho.]

***
There was just one instant of absolute silence, one of those magnetic moments when Fate seems to have dropped the spool on which she was spinning the threads of a life, and is just stooping in order to pick it up.
***

Bonus: "much behatted" to describe a (different) woman in a large and/or elaborate hat.

And an illustration is attached in the spirit of "Who needs context?"

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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 #elephant #illustration
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July 5, 2025

The Right Word (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #maledicta #vintage headline #expletive #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #monkey #1920s #illustration #circle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Omen, 1998.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #dandy #monocle #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine #1990s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if ice creams are selling like hot cakes."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puppetry by Virginia Murphy, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #stage design #diagram #puppetry #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Dull diet drove housewife to crime-writing."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1957.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #bulldog #peacock
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Old News (permalink)
"Students mutate, grow fins, gills."  From The Gateway, 1979.
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#vintage headline #mutation #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The combination mop wig / tin foil hat look is timeless.  From Wheaton College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #tin foil hat #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 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 #dragon #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #key
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cinderella, illustrated by the Brothers Dalziel, c. 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The book and the mice."  From Scribner's, 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #infestation #book #mice
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Curse of the Dream Witch by Allan Stratton.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #owl #dream
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1948 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #fez #1940s #rude awakening #vintage men #men #hat
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Old News (permalink)
"The snail goes like a rabbit."  From The Book of Today by Arthur Brisbane, 1924.
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#snail #rabbit #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#fairy #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #july #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 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 #insect #1890s #illustration #larva
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July 4, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's never enough.  Buddy's toy ship doesn't have trained mice to row it, ruining the riparian entertainments.  From Wee Wisdom, 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 #boat #1920s #illustration #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 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 #political cartoon #crocodile #sword #1960s #illustration #eaten alive
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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 #robinson crusoe #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 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 #medieval #illustration #acrobat #fourteenth century
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #greece #greek #singing #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The marvellous realms of God.  A hundred thousand times greater than we dreamed of."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#outer space #universe #vintage headline #headline
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"Spare moments are the gold dust of time.  Of all the portions of our life, the spare moments are the most fruitful in good or evil."  From Improvement Era, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #clock #illustration #spare time
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Old News (permalink)
"What animal controls your spirit?"  From The Book of Today by Arthur Brisbane, 1924.
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#animal totem #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drawing #explosion #fireworks #fire cracker
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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 #crow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mourning #vintage yearbook #yearbook #in memoriam
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Daily Colonist, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #candy #lollipop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Broome Community College's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#money #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jenny Goes to Sea, written and illustrated by Esther Averill.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana 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 #bathtub
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The [Armstrong] Inkwell, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #question mark #mannequin #faceless #hat #no face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #fourth of july #mouse #crossword puzzle
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From stories by C. Daly King:

***
Not the Greek chatterbox performance that came later and merely reduced wisdom to wiseacring.
***

[Bonus: a psychiatrist called Dr. Backenforth]

 






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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sea-side and Way-side by Julia McNair Wright and illustrated by C. S. King, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #barnacles #illustration
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July 3, 2025

Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
It's only once a year: everybody's birthday!  From Wee Wisdom, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #candle #1920s #vintage headline #illustration #cake #headline #birthday
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #patchwork girl #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It 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 written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #optical illusion #cat #1920s #illustration #poem #chimnet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child Life in Literature: A Fourth Reader by Blaisdell & Blaisdell, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wind #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rooftop sharkman bootblack.  From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #rooftop #shark #illustration #1880s #sharkman #bootblack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #dog #1920s #eskimo #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Five, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #hammer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From By Motor to the Firing Line by Walter Hale, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #explosion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Can you find "the false Osiris" in the night sky?  From Oahspe: A New Bible in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Embassadors by John Ballou Newbrough, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #night sky #centaur #biblical
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Old News (permalink)
"Spasms of rat life."  From Virginia Polytechnic Institute's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Peanut-Parlour of Pseudo-Art."  From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #architecture
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Oh, all these terrible things that keep happening to us, when will they stop?"  From Dark Shadows episode 414. 
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#dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"Any moron can sin."  From The Sanguinist, 1946.
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#sin #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scales
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #explosion #fourth of july #fire cracker #firworks #july 4
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tale of Old Mr. Crow by Arthur Scott Bailey, 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 #scarecrow #anthropomorphism #crow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #viking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vanity Fair, 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 #wodehouse #magazine
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July 2, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#1900s #beet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles 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 #tree #1890s #yew #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, 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 #through the looking glass #1890s #illustration #imaginary animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magic trick #illustration #matches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fashions during the reign of Charlemagne.  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 #800s
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #snowflake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a Prime Minister is ever past his prime."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #prime minister
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nick Carter Weekly, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gem #vintage magazine #bling #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Finishing touches."  From Chatterbox, 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 #animal attack #artist #bull #painter #artistic animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mister Fox (R. Shugg & Co.), c. 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #fox #goose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pig #caveman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Might be one of the hautboys bearing a box of 'trognies' for the actors to suck."  From Of All Things! by Robert Benchley, 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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#candy #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton College's 1878 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #epicurism #eating
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Old News (permalink)
"The cat that taught a lesson."  From Australian Womens' Weekly, 1961.
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#cat #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #hippo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Indian Fairy Book by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 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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#coyote #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"I saw a fire before it happened!"  From Fate Magazine, 1949.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fire #dream #precognition
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #puppeteer #puppet #marionette #puppet master
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The country is deep but the falling is soft.  From Drawings by John Leech, 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 #falling #horse #illustration
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July 1, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #explosion #hot seat #tiny man #chemistry #1970s #illustration #under pressure #pressure cooker
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The Right Word (permalink)
Finding magical words for spellcraft, with added transmagnificanbandanjuality, on Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #magic words #video #penetralia #transmagnificanbandanjuality #transmagnificanbandanuality #transmagnificanbamdamuality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Kings and Queens, 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 #king #illustration #1880s #george the second
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 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 #elf #autumn #leaf #autumn leaves #brownie #1900s #illustration #nut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 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 #housekeeping #1930s #cleanliness #illustration #bedroom #cleaning
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #ship #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Are we sentimental?  While a great deal can be achieved by sentiment, it can also, like most things, be overdone."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage headline #sentimentality
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, January-June 1920:

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[I think we need to know more about this "code of signals"!]
Just below Fourteenth Street George Browne conducted a small chop-house...much frequented by the [theatrical] profession, especially by members of the Union Square and Wallack companies....He played small parts in Wallack's company and had a code of signals by which he was wont to inform patrons in the audience what special dish would be served in his chop-house after the theatre.

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Ah, here is Clifford!...No, it's a haddock. Our mistake.

***
Hansford Wilson was the man who put the Stop and Look in Listen, Lester! [Wodehouse]

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Everybody has a friend...who is "more fun than a circus."
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[Bonus: Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor (a real illustrator's name)]

Notes on some of the attachments:
1. "Character Cars": Well, of course I want this to denote custom-designed vehicles for cartoon characters, e.g., Smoky Stover's Foomobile, Fred Flintstone's car, etc.
2. "Conversely": My take on this brace of ads: "Use your belt as a tire! Or, Conversely, use your tire as a belt!"
3. "pearls": Well, of course you can slip the artificials by us if you distract us with a hat plume as tall as the Eiffel Tower!
4. He's made friends with winter, and all outdoors is calling to him. That's why he's reclining on a window ledge looking apprehensively at the wintry outdoors.
5. Well, you know what they say: You can lead a person to the best pajamas in the world...but if he's not really tired and he'd rather spend the night perched on his windowsill grinning at the Woolworth Building, you can't make him sleep.
6. Note how Wodehouse handled the end of the alphabet.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Oh ye halcyon dayes of peace, bring to ye earthe great joy; give healthe and happinesse and love without alloye."  From Swarthmore College's 1888 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
"In God we trust.  All others pay cash."  From Mister Fish Kelly by Robert McBlair, 1924.
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#money #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sisyphus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was dazed and horrified to find himself suddenly subjected to the demoralizing Influences of the Small Town."  From Ade's Fables by George Ade, 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 #dancing #party
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills 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 #buddha
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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 #oz #antlers #trophy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost with a camera, presumably taking spirit photographs.  From Purdue University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera
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Old News (permalink)
"You miss the sun."  From Improvement Era, 1930.
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#sun #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"But who is this, what thing of land or sea?"  From Oberlin College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Such Nonsense! by Carolyn Wells, 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 #monocle #angular
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Boston College's 1968 yearbook.  They're listening to The Zodiac's Cosmic Sounds.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #psychedelic #album cover #photo
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Precursors (permalink)
Mister Potato Eraserhead Baby?  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#potato #mr. potato head #1900s #eraserhead
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