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

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Three lost minutes.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Whirly Bird by Aylesa Forsee and illustrated by Tom Two Arrows.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art Bulletin No. 5, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The old serpent."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1943.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Great news!  "You still have time."  From an ad in 1956.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1941 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pilot Bails Out, written and illustrated by Don Blanding, 1943.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1909 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1907 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From First Lady of the Keys, by Lucy Brazier:

***
[Because, I suppose, the book began as a blog à clef (which is especially appropriate given the key-keeping theme!), most of the characters are referred to and addressed only by their titles--Deputy Head Porter, Junior Bursar, Head of Housekeeping--or as "Professor K" and so on. That brings a certain je ne sais quoi (or rather je ne sais qui) that I like. Oh, one twist/exception is the porter whose surname is also Porter. There's also a named character called Professor Fox--who is "trans-Atlantic" and speaks unconvincingly but sometimes amusingly in a mixture of U.S. and UK slang.]

***
[More hat obsessions! In case you haven't been doing the math, I note that this is a completely different author from (a) the one who wrote The Man Who Became a Hat, and (b) the one who wrote Hats Off to Murder.]

It is the fascination of his hat that so enchants me.

[later]

I always liked wearing a hat. It gave me a sense of purpose.

[still later]

"Holmes and Watson require the assistance of...Hercule Poirot. And you have the right sort of hat, which is good enough for me."

[and]

The jolly fedora is instantly familiar.

[There is also some one-upping with hats! It is discovered that the porters of a rival college wear top hats, rather than bowlers. The bowler-hatted porters decide that the only way to outdo their rivals now would be to wear crowns.]

***
We make our way through the cloisters and across the courtyards, Head Porter merrily talking nonsense. Or he could be explaining something relating to College life. It is so very difficult to tell the difference.

***
"I've been avoiding banquets for years now and am rather adept at it."

***
"But isn't it a little...spooky?"
"Spooky? Deputy Head Porter, I am a man of science! I do not get...spooked."
He is a Professor of Economics, but maybe that is a type of science. It's not really for me to point this out or to pursue it further.

***
"He died in Old College?"
"Yes, in his chair by the fire in the Senior Combination Room. It was nearly a full twenty-four hours before anyone realised he was dead. The latter part of his career was spent asleep in that chair, and it was only when he failed to turn up for lunch the following day that we realised something was amiss.... His passing was very much like his life. Very peaceful. He probably does not even realise he has died."

[later]

In Doctor D's case, even death wasn't enough to shift him from his seat by the fire.

***
I am becoming something of a specialist in Matters That Must Be Attended To Immediately. Old College should start offering degrees in it.

***
"Doctor F is incandescent with rage!"
Ha. "Incandescent with rage"! I've only ever seen that phrase written down; I didn't think people actually said it.

***
She is not amused at the finger of blame being pointed at the Bedders, but once I explain the finger of blame is merely being waved about in general, she relents a little.

***
I recognize Gustav Holst's "Planet Suite" playing on the record deck.... [Professor K's finger] is vaguely keeping time to the music and his thin, drawn lips are softly humming. I don't think they are humming Holst, but that is hardly my business.

***
"When furniture becomes unreasonable, one must look out, you know."

***
"Sir, you know what we were talking about the other day?"
"Ghosts and ghoulies?"
I don't remember ghoulies coming into it, but there you go.

***
His voice is soft, low and even, each word sounding as if it is floating on a cushion, quite apart from its neighbours.

***
No point in standing on ceremony. It never stood on me.

***
This does not merely warm the cockles of my heart; it wraps them in a rug and places them snugly by the fire.

***
"Don't listen to Head Porter. I mean, no one really does so don't be the first. It's always awful if you're the first to do something."

***
Getting an unequivocal answer from Professor K was like prising a Fellow away from his dinner--nigh on impossible.

***
He pauses, [which] he probably thinks is effective, but rather makes him appear to have forgotten what he was saying.

***
They remain seemingly sempiternal [I didn't know that word! --J.] in Old College until they are called to the great lecture theatre (or, more likely, Dining Room) in the sky.

***
"I'm just strolling about, you know. I do that from time to time, and many other times," replies the Professor, smiling.

***
"Snakes! Murderers! Dragons! Socks! Why, it could really be anything!"

***
I am not as fond of keys as any good Porter should be; as fascinating as many of them are, they can become a little tedious over time. Like people.

***
"You should both behave a little more like gentlemen."
"He wouldn't know a gentleman if one jumped up and bit him on the bum!" he says, jabbing a finger at Head Porter.
"Gentlemen do not bite people on the bum!" Head Porter retorts, which is a fair enough point, to be honest.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1979.
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Old News (permalink)
"Ben Uphus, queer one.  Aged hermit of Torah, when taken in charge, weeps.  Because he must leave solitary life of many years."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The phrase "'potted' plants can grow in any kind of dirt" is a Googlewhack.  From Austin College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #woman #vintage woman #sign #potted plant
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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 #anthropomorphism #faces in things #moth #yarn ball
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August 30, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
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#magic words
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How to avoid ectoplasm: Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you successfully give a Hatamotos the high hat.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #samurai
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Where No Fear Was by Maurice Nesbitt.
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#vintage illustration #fear #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #horse #cowboy #arrow #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We're probably all heard speakers with so-called "feeling," so-called "gestures," with lists of words and broken phrases that communicate nothing and go nowhere.  Here's how it all diagrams.  From The Art of the Spoken Word by Mrs. Tobias Matthay, 1922.
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#vintage diagram #diagram #elocution
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"That's yer bed."  From Ballybeg Junction by F. M. Allen (1895).

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#vintage illustration #hay #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #pianist #1970s #paper bag head #bag over the head #unknown pianist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grey Sprite, The Silver Knight, His Adventures in the Old, Old Forest by Francis E. Park and illustrated by Elizabeth B. Warren, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #spider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's helium balloon grapes are from Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #vintage magazine #balloon #grapes #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Conference Seminary's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zhgut, 1906.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rooftop #human faced
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #secret society #puritan #fallen statue #cambridge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The American Legion Magazine, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #world #angel
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1922 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Water bewitched.  From The Fairy Tales of Science by John Cargill Brough and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1859.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Georgia Southern's 1979 yearbook.

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#witch #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Sue Moore called police."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1973.
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#ufo
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August 29, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that Bizarre Bucktown Walking Tours features a Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia sticker on their MacBook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Enchanted House by Edith Harrison and illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 1913.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Dinners with the Sphinx by Richard Le Gallienne, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #finis #vintage yearbook #spilled ink #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #angel #anthropomorphism #clouds #faces in things #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Read Heads and Faces by James Coates, 1937.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Judson's 1974 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A radiance seemed to flow around us."  From Fantastic Adventures, 1947.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Before Thomas Kinkade, there was this painter of light.  From Centenary's 1967 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A fine poetic frenzy."  From Woroni, 1981.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Giant Despair towers above."  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1973 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1926.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From pieces by Frank Sullivan:

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Then Carnegie whistled the entire score of Piff, Paff, Pouff through twice.

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You can tell the March of Fate by watching the kettledrum player. If he shows signs of working up a sweat, you know you're well into the March of Fate. Fate marches around a good deal in "Beethoven's Fifth." Fate keeps popping in and out of the "Fifth" like the Marx Brothers in the bedroom scene

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"Where's the screw driver?" I demanded, in a fury of energy.
"It's in The Thing," said the S.S. ["Sainted Sullivan," Frank's sister].
In our house The Thing is the place where the screw driver is when the S.S. can't remember where the screw driver is. The Thing can be the tool shed, the cellar, the attic, milady's chamber, or the lower part of the kitchen cabinet where abandoned string, bent nails, receipted telephone bills, oiled paper and old devilled eggs are kept. Experience has taught me that the screw driver is rarely to be found in The Thing.
[...]
"It's wherever you left it," she said, coolly. The S.S. was in one of her more marked It's-wherever-you-left-it moods that summer. By an odd coincidence it was in that same summer that I was in one of my You-had-it-last moods, so I retorted, "You had it last, you know."

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If [Grandpa] was in a good humor when he awoke, he would take us youngsters up to Dick Canfield's to play games, but as he was never in a good humor when he awoke, we never went to Dick Canfield's to play games.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magazine of Art, 1888.
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August 28, 2021

Old News (permalink)
A message from beyond the grave.  "Buried te wrong man.  Man, supposed to be dead, writes that he is alive."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1974 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1918.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Millennial Star, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magazine of Art, 1884.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgia Southern's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The valley of ten thousand waterfalls."  From Which Was Witch? by Eleaore Myers Jewett, 1959.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Great news -- "Next year will be ours."  From Western Carolina's 1942 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sooty by Ambrosina Hurcum and illustrated by Eleanor Mussey Young, 1935.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1979 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Dermot and the Thirsty Stones, written and illustrated by Richard Bennett.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
I suspect that St Louis' Gateway Arch was constructed as a "goal" for people to fall through and thereby score.
From The Mysterious Stranger by John Tinney McCutcheon, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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August 27, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Neons Gone Mad is honored that Diego Merletto of the Italian band Static Movement was interested in a clockwork cover of the classic song "Radio Station."  (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)
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Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore (permalink)

Two Otherworldly Books: Polar Opposites?

The two most famous mystical manuals for guidance through the Otherworld are, in staggering ways, diametric opposites.  

The Tibetan Book of the Dead was preserved by the living, its chapters kept intact over millennia by monks in monasteries.  Contrariwise, the Egyptian Book of the Dead was preserved by mummies, its chapters scattered piecemeal (even as Osiris was dismembered?) and sealed for millennia in coffins and tombs.  

The Tibetan was meant to be recited to a corpse by a living undertaker.  The Egyptian was meant to be read only by the deceased individual, in the afterlife.  

In the Tibetan, the soul navigating the afterlife liminality is a human who encounters deities and torments, judgments, and pitfalls, the book serving as a guide map to another incarnation.  In the Egyptian, the soul in the netherworld is itself a divinity (indistinguishable from all deities), the book constituting "identity papers" that exempt one from any torments, judgments, or pitfalls on the way not to another incarnation but rather eternal providence.  

The Tibetan is read in whole and then retained by the living.  The Egyptian is unread in fragments (as chapter 64 notes, "This composition is a secret; not to be seen or looked at ... by any man, for it is forbidden to know it.  Let it be hidden") and retained by the dead.  

The Tibetan would have the soul disattach from memories of illusory experiences.  The Egyptian soul, as a deity having been disguised as a mortal, is prompted to say, "That which I went in order to ascertain I am come to tell.  Come let me enter and  report my mission" (chapter 86).  The Tibetan calls the soul toward realms indescribable by known language, while the Egyptian promises a perpetuity of familiar worldly food, bodily pleasures, landscapes, climates, planting and reaping, labor and recreation.

Clerical (pun intended) errors by Egyptian scribes corrupted the book to the extent that varied copies of the same chapter are wildly discordant.  It would seem that over the millennia the copyists did not understand the original texts, the original meanings having been lost at a very early date.  The Tibetan, while similarly reproduced, is significantly less adulterated.  Because the Egyptian copies were never meant for living eyes, the scribes' attention to detail naturally faltered (in other words, the accuracy of their work went unchecked).  It was the opposite situation for the Tibetan scribes.  As the Egyptian is significantly bastardized, translators are so often left to conjecture, to either fill or not fill the empty pools of textual lacunae, to baffle over the legitimacy of enigmatic hapax legomena.  Yet there's a strange poetry to that — a book of metaphysical mysteries, not meant for living eyes, gathering further unfathomableness over time.  (Somewhat ironically, Egyptologists seek "accuracy" of non-literal, possibly deliberately nonsensical esoterica and paronomasia.  As translator Peter Le Page Renouf notes, the various chapters of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and other texts prove that "with reference to the details, free scope was allowed to the imagination of the scribes or artists."  Though Renouf fastidiously checked his own guesswork, he perhaps needn't have been overly cautious.  The Egyptian Book of Dead would seem to be unstuck in time and even unstuck in phraseology, like a text in an hallucinatory dream that morphs as the visionary tries to read it.)

In short, the Tibetan (guarded at extraordinarily high elevations) is addressed to human beings, while the Egyptian (preserved at very low elevations) is addressed to gods.

P.S.  Interestingly, the judgment scenes in both books are so alike in essentials as to suggest a common prehistoric origin.  The Tibetan's King of the Dead as judge corresponds to the Egyptian Osiris.  Both books have a symbolical weighing.  On the scales before the King of the Dead, black pebbles are weighed against white (symbolizing evil and good deeds).  Before Osiris, the heart and a feather are weighed (conduct/conscience against righteousness/truth).  In both books, a simian-headed figure oversees the weighing (the ape-headed Thoth in the Egyptian, the monkey-headed Shinje in the Tibetan).  In both books, a jury of deities looks on, some animal- and some human-headed.  The record-board that Thot holds corresponds to the Mirror of Karma held by the King of the Dead.  The deceased in both books pleads innocence.
See Books of the Dead, a distillation of twenty-four books of the dead from around the world and across the centuries.  Each book’s most intriguing, poetic, and useful revelations are painstakingly gathered.
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you alive?"  Of course, the great Charles Fort has already answered this, and so did the illustrious Philip K. Dick in his own way.  Headline from Together, 1958.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Smile, be natural, and take samples if a space alien confronts you.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1972.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't buy blue sky!"  From The Film Daily, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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Old News (permalink)
"Nobody here but us victims."  From Harper's, 1958.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sleeping Beauty."  From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#religion #vintage illustration #sacrifice #altar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Third Reader by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1914.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"In light of recent events …"  From Methodist College's 1995 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Psychiatry.  From Medical College of Virginia's 1979 yearbook.

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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson College's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen, illustrated by Emily Harding, 1896.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Late Phoenix, by Catherine Aird:

***
He knew for a fact that Crosby was only up to the sort of mental arithmetic where you took away the number you first thought of.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's easy folks.  Just breathe in!"  From Woroni, 1980.
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August 26, 2021

Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore (permalink)

An Ancient Egyptian "Blueprint" for Co-Creating a Better Tomorrow

For anyone who feels at rock bottom, this is an intuitive divination that requires no knowledge of Egyptian mythology or astrology.  The image you'll work with is like a blueprint of a four-walled room, the walls of which have been flattened.  Picture the central rectangle, holding four figures and framed with a double line, as the floor.  Above it, below, left, and right are the room's four walls, as if they're lying on the ground.  The blueprint comes from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and it depicts a funeral chamber.  Note the jackal-headed Anubis, protector of tombs, leaning over a mummy.  The mummy is you in your current state, feeling bound and powerless, awaiting the dawn of a new life of plenitude.  Under the bed (below Anubis and your mummy) is a bird with a human head, a symbol of your soul.  You are actually represented three times in this blueprint (you'll see yourself honoring the rising and setting suns, in the top corners).
Instructions: There are 16 letters on the blueprint.  Next to each letter you will write a number.  Begin by writing a 1 next to any letter your intuition guides you, or seemingly at random.  There is no "wrong" way to do this.  Follow your whim.  Just as the letters  are somewhat unpredictably placed, so should your numbers be at your discretion.  Continue here and there around the blueprint until you've written all 16 numbers.  Then, referring to the chart below, match the numbers to the letters, one pair at a time, to form messages.  The numbers represent astrological particulars (the greater symbolic meaning of each planet and asteroid).  Those meanings are offered in brackets.  The letters identify each figure in the diagram and what it communicates (as per the Egyptian Book of the Dead).  Each of those communications is like a fill-in-the blank.  They each feature the word "this," and that's like the blank to be filled by the bracketed word in the numerical list.  For example, letter A says that "Anubis prepares this good way for you."  If A were paired with the number 12 ("Inspiration") then the message is that you're on the cusp of a sudden bright idea or brainstorm that will send you moving forward on a better path of life.  "Anubis prepares inspiration as a good way for you."  Some paired message will make perfect sense immediately, while others will encourage some contemplation and some "wait and see."  This blueprint may be re-numbered at different times, for different circumstances.  The grand, overarching message of these readings is that many forces are at play, some seen and some unseen, that collaborate on one's destiny.  A new start may feature one of a great variety of characteristics.  Being conscious of those characteristics will empower one to better take advantage of opportunities for shifting one's life path or otherwise co-collaborate on one's destiny.  [Note that the walls of the blueprint feature 12 figures, recalling the 12 houses of the Zodiac; you may find other ways to work with this mystical diagram to inspire new insights.]
1. Ceres Asteroid [Nurturance]
2. Pallas Asteroid [Wisdom]
3. Juno Asteroid [Commitment]
4. Vesta Asteroid [Spirituality]
5. Hygeia Asteroid [Wellness]
6. Chiron Asteroid [Wounded Healer]
7. Moon [Emotions]
8. Pluto [Power]
9. Mercury [Communication]
10. Mars [Passion]
11. Venus [Love/Money]
12. Neptune [Inspiration]
13. Uranus [Rebellion]
14. Saturn [Karma]
15. Jupiter [Luck]
16. Sun [Self]
A. Anubis prepares this good way for you.
B. Goddess Isis protects and strengthens you with this.
C. Goddess Nephthys justifies you and keeps you from losing your head with this.
D. The statue of the northern wall binds you with this for protection.
E. The symbol of the western wall brings light to this.
F. The flame on the southern wall illuminates the heights of this.
G. Anubis in his divine hall watches over this and averts wrath.
H. Your living soul hails this arising on the eastern horizon.
I. Your living soul adores this setting in the land of the living, the western horizon.
J. The statue nurtures this (like a field is planted and watered).
K. The statue establishes a foundation for this (like sand conveyed from east to west).
L. Cardinal point genie Kebehsenuf puts the heart of this in its right place.
M. Cardinal point genie Hapi revives the "head" of this.
N. Cardinal point genie Taumautef rescues the originator of this from evil doers.
O. Cardinal point genie Emsta causes this to proper permanently.
P. Your living soul is vitalized by this.
* Historians must reconstruct the past out of hazy memory.  "Once upon a time" requires "second sight."  The "third eye" of intuition can break the "fourth wall" of conventional perspectives.  Instead of "pleading the fifth," historians can take advantage of the "sixth sense" and be in "seventh heaven."  All with the power of hindpsych, the "eighth wonder of the world."  It has been said that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.  Therein lies the importance of Tarot readings for antiquity.  When we confirm what has already occurred, we break the shackles of the past, freeing ourselves to chart new courses into the future.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we're disinclined to view dust under a microscope.  From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #reading #books #candle #scholar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wid's Daily, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #life study #artists
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Sadie Hawkins Day mascot.  From Brevard's 1947 yearbook.

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#grotesque #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mascot #sadie hawkins
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"These several nights there has been a comet in the sky."  From Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #witchcraft #comet #starry night #shooting star #falling star
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#rose #faces in things #anthropomorphism #nose #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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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 #severed head #monkey #decapitated #pet walker #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #flying saucer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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#religion #vintage illustration #nose #long nose #tiny men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pyramid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1981.
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#biblical #biblical revision #irreverent
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1974.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Unthinkable, to discard a little goat.  From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Old News (permalink)
From You Have to Stop This by Pseudonymous Bosch.
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#vintage headline #stop #headline
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August 25, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Ernst Stöhr in Ver Sacrum, 1899.  The same image is handled differently here.
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#angel #harp #light and dark #in chains
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
True and false simultaneously?  It's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#prof. oddfellow #paradox #video #penetralia #true and false
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #leash #dog man
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Sundials (permalink)
From Art Poétique by Max Jacob, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #sundial
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #fish people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #see no evil #vintage car #car #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #serpent #snake #hybrid #illustration #snake headed #missionary
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Nicely done -- the leaves forming letters at the top.  From Clarion's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #censer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cholera waiting for a train.  From The Wasp, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #skull face #disease #cholera
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cheers #faces in things #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #sword fight
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I cannot find my way: there is no star in all the shrouded heavens."  From Salve Regina's 1969 yearbook.

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#darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lost #no stars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #devil #money #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Story of our lives -- you try to take a group shot, but only the costumed character notices the camera.  Plus, in answer to your, "Say cheese!" the costumed character invariably says a very different word.  From Memphis State's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume
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Old News (permalink)
He's one to talk!  "UFO Expert: 'Keep feet firmly on the ground.'"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1972.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "A Volume of Poe," by Vincent Starrett:

["Things" dept.!]

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This is what we say everywhere we go: "Where's your crystal ball?  I expected to see a crystal ball."  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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August 24, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The world as a rotten Easter egg.  "The ranker it is, the better I like it."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #world #devil #earth #war #easter egg
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Time-bending -- a book dedicated to both the present and past self of one Little John.  From The Sandman: His Farm Stories by William J. Hopkins and illustrated by Ada Clendenin Williamson, 1902.
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#book dedication
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #necromancy #bones #bell #chime #demonic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A housewife guzzling dishwashing liquid.  From Ya-Hoo, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #soap #1950s #dishwashing liquid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #horse #devil horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Egyptian cat.  From The Magazine of Art, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #cat
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horror #vampire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mosquito #table
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mitchell Community College's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #angel #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1921 yearbook.

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

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Union College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #dreaming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Comic Magazine, 1832.
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#vintage illustration #fear #nature #hippo #wild animals #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #alcoholism #wine #propaganda #blood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #siamese twins #joined at the neck #art
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death of a Tin God, by George Bellairs:

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He even shaded his eyes dramatically with his hand, although the hotel porch was in shadow.

[That sort of reminds me of my character Sippy intending to roll up her sleeves for a "let's get to work" effect (but, upon discovering that they were already rolled up, she rolls them down instead).]

***
[We've had plenty of nonexistent theatrical productions, but I think it's been a while since we had a top-notch nonexistent nightclub, in the tradition of Wodehouse's "Mottled Oyster."]

"The night-club was called The Winking Light.... It's called after the flashing lights of the pedestrian crossing outside."

***
The town and promenade were deserted.... Even the sea seemed to be taking a rest.

***
"It was a birthday party. A Mr. Fowlers and wife. And there was also Coopers and lady, and Mr. Firmins and his friend, Miss Marriotts..."
To Mr. Monides, they were all in the plural!
***

[Bonus: A film producer named Anatole Beanstock]
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Old News (permalink)
"Insanity as a part-time way of life."  From Woroni, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #insanity #mental illness #vintage headline #headline
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August 23, 2021

Old News (permalink)
The words "zslynmp" and "crolgkukcrol" remain Googlewhacks.  This headline is from Toike Oike, 1939.
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#vintage headline #weird word #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Suspected of foul play at a mountaintop observatory ... don't you hate when that happens?  It's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Unless you could use some change in your life, may no creeping coins rattle you.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #money #coin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"gEE! wHIZ! tHis iS jUSt THe stARt."  From The Film Daily, 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 #lion #we've only just begun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today there are non-surgical ways.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.  From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1908 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #cat people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Of things beyond."  From Unknown magazine, July 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crystal ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faun #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #diving #god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #bell #bell ringer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bull #gored
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Remember."  (Our restoration, as per usual.)  From the Asheville-Biltmore yearbook of 1959.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #severed head #floating head #pig #pig head
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From For Men Only, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #dancing
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Precursors (permalink)
A precursor to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.  From Middle Tennessee's 1969 yearbook.
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#ufo #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light and darkness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #rattlesnake #rattler
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chair #ex libris #bookplate
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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 #political cartoon #fire demon #demon #fire spirit #giant #fire #hell #torment #burned alive #gorgon #snake hair #church fire #cathedral fire #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Forced to pose in an execution scene during hypnotic catalepsy.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #decapitation #execution #hypnosis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance we assumed these were giant, walking bowling pins with whiskers, newly graduated.  It's Al Capp's Schmoo, from William and Mary's 1949 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #1940s #schmoo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Truths Illustrated by George Owen, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #heaven #life path
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August 22, 2021

Forgotten Wisdom (permalink)
Two famous biblical accouchements, Eve from Adam's rib and Jesus from the virginal Mary, are connected as shown here.  Yet these are banal miracles, inasmuch as the emergences are from human bodies.  Consider how the Tibetan Book of the Dead offers explicit instructions on how to be reborn in a lotus flower.
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#anagram #adam's rib #virgin birth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #golf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Heaven By the Hems by Marina de Berg.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #bird #book #nun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From a rare book with a surprising price tag: Jeremiah the Cat by William Maurice Culp, 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 #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #church art #backbiter
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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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#on fire #book cover #burned alive #book burning #newspaper clothing
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
It's rarely admitted, but wine is made of grapes' tears.  From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #wine #tears #grapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Belle Marvel Brain" -- that's quite a name (pen name?).  The Transformation of Hawaii by Belle Marvel Brain, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #hawaii
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This egg is a magus.  From Duke's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #cutlery #insects #flies #bugs #fork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ole Miss's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen, illustrated by Emily Harding, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From William and Mary's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#shakespeare #macbeth #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #witches #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Mitgard serpent was a cat."  From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #earth #japanese #cat #eating its own tail
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From a memoir by Jon Pertwee:

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[One of the local postmen] possessed the longest eyebrows I've ever seen on a man, which, when he was at speed, flapped around his eyes alarmingly.

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[Uncle Guy] would start, stop, re-start, hiccup and backfire his way through a sentence, with an "I say, what?--now look here--er--can't ever you do it?--no question!--do what you did--er--Mother, this was delicious, don't you know!"
By profession, he was a teacher of elocution!

***
I remember with nostalgia the sight of my father with nervous paper hat from a cracker jammed splitting on his head, involved in a heated political discussion with a guest wearing an equally stupid hat. There are few things in life more ludicrous than the sight of two grown men locked in verbal combat, completely unaware that they are sporting silly paper hats!

***
[Mr. Bloom] wore thick pebble glasses to no apparent purpose, as they rested permanently on the top of his head and were never to be seen on the end of his nose.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Now is the silly season when you must keep your weather-eye peeled!"  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage ad #eye #silly season #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Shadows, too, cast shadows.  From Purdue University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #optical illusion #hidden face #anthropomorphism #letter u
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August 21, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #yarn ball #knitting needle
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A haunted work of art, in Penetralia After Dark:
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#prof. oddfellow #haunted art #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first you might be like, "Oh, great -- he comes in peace."  But then you realize that's not a peace gesture.  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.
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#vampire #vintage illustration
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
"The secret will be divulged."  From Wid's Daily, 1919.
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#vintage ad #secret #question mark #envelope #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"With its beak loosened the bone."  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fable #fox #aesop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Salome, wanton of the seven veils, white witch and wooer of all evil."  From Weird Tales, 1939, illustrated by Virgil Finlay.
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#vintage illustration #witch #severed head #salome #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We spotted this ghost haunting Sacred Heart's 1978 yearbook.  The caption reads, "Journeys ended."

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #spirit photograph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The [Alberta] Gateway, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #casserole
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1959 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage photo #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hazing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The American Legion Magazine, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #necktie #shirtless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #bats #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alchemist
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An effigy from Lasell's 1946 yearbook.

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #devil #mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We analyzed this photo with our custom Uncanny Detector app, and it turns out that these are two divisions of the soul upon death—the "good genius" and the "simultaneously-born demon" (as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead).  From Anderson's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1972.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The truth about frogs."  From Iowa Wesleyan's 1930 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser.
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#nun #no face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tables turned
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Old News (permalink)
"One armed men divide gloves.  One takes right glove and the other uses the left."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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August 20, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #statue #colossi #thebes
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to Gertie T. Justice for saying, "I love Professor Oddfellow!  This guy is a grand mind trip!"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's why we don't even glance at the headlines: "You can read the news in a man's eyes."  From Movie Classic, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #news #ad
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you must dream of spectres tonight, be sure they're black-robed.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#ghost #spectre #dream #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #severed head #medusa #1890s #gorgon #perseus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hands #shell game #walnut #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's supposed to be one or the other, a candle or one's head before a concave mirror.  But we damn etiquette and do both at once.  From The Wonders of Optics by Fulgence Marion, 1869.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #magnification #concave #optics
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The cone of silence.  From Elmhurst's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big hat #hat #sombrero #mexican hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #weightless
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Even with an uncanny antenna, we don't get the TV channel pictured here.  Couldn't find much about these women online, but Lydia Stalnaker and Jean Branson founded a UFO club in Jacksonville, Florida.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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#alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #giant bug #tiny man #giant insect #giant fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1909 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage photo #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #floating head #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poedinok, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #monster #giant bird #vulture
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
A raven tells the saint not to do it.  From La Colotte, 1909.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #monk #talking bird #saint #alcohol #raven
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's little known that rose colored glasses have greenbacks.  From Spring Hill's 1954 yearbook.

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#blindfold #money #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #rose colored glasses
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Paint a Murder, by Lily Ashton:

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[I like this variation on the cliche of stuffy paintings glowering down on the living.]

She marched Alice along a corridor lined with austere portraits of former council leaders who glowered at each other as they passed.
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#haunted painting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
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#vintage illustration #owl #full moon
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August 19, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We checked, and this is accurate.  "The world we live in.  The parasite."  From Shadowland, 1923.
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#snowman
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Old News (permalink)
Prohibition-era Minnesota moonshine is here called "Gopher booze," a sober sobriquet we've not seen elsewhere.  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#alcohol #vintage headline #moonshine #booze #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The most amazing book in the world, on Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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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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Old News (permalink)
"Once upon a time, he believed many of them.  But now ... He collects superstitions."  From Together, 1962.  See Strange Talismans for Strange Times.
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#superstition #vintage headline #headline
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Unicorns (permalink)
A "nocorn" from the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #rabbit #brer rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He may be invisible but he packs an awful wallop."  From The Film Daily, 1942.
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#ghost #transparent #vintage hollywood #invisible man #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The chariot."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A tiny pirate from Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #pirate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1922 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 #fraternities
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #bird #folk tale #pamela colman smith #basket
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Old Fort's 1969 yearbook.

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bonfire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #long nose #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Taylor's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #genie #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Precursors (permalink)
Technology has devolved since thw 1930s.  The 3-D televisions of today can't do this.  From For Men Only, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #technology #1930s #bathtub #television #3d tv
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University Of Washington's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #nest #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"'Mad as hell,' and all that."  A headline from Medium II newspaper (Mississauga), 1978.
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#vintage headline #anger #headline #mad as hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Which: Impulse, Instinct or Intuition? by C. Tousey Taylor, 1919.
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#religion #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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August 18, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Out of the magic cup, with scythe and fork, comes dancing death."  From Shadowland, 1922.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #occult #scythe #1920s #fork #magic cup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gogmagog, the guildhall giant."  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #giant #statue #gogmagog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #jester
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1875.
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#vintage illustration #india #acrobat #street performer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And over everything an awful silence" -- the canyons and ruins on the moon.  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #bigfoot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pronunciation is so important.  "As he spoke the last words the ancient tomb exploded outward into rubbish."  From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #occult #explosion
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Old News (permalink)
"Feared cult killer really an owl."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#owl #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Study Chronicle, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #clouds #aurora borealis #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indianapolis College of Pharmacy's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #hat #studying
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 2004.
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#doctor #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The sad kitten of endings.  From Lasell's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #sad cat #sad kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The man who won first prize at the surrealists' ball."  From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #surrealism #costume party #modern art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sports #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Fukurokuju, Japanese god of longevity and wisdom.  From Rockford's 1929 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #devil #ad
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August 17, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
A sojourn in the holo-desert: Neons Gone Mad offers a haunted clockwork remix of an amazing track by Kaerian & GrevusAnjl.  We're honored that GrevusAnjl said: "Wonderful translation of our original. Clockwork sounds are one of my happy spaces, so this really hits the spot."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We wonder if there were any delays when Mr. DeLay raced to meet his deadline for this illustration of Father Time racing the locomotive of progress.  From Shadowland, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1972.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We blush to offer you a dab of puce.  From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #makeup #puce
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's still difficult to get anyone to bring you the candles of the seven secrets.  It's like they don't want you to exorcise the ghost.  "'I want you to go home and come back here immediately, and bring with you the candles.  The candles of the seven secrets.'  'No.'"  From Dark Shadows episode 1005.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat legged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #violin #musical animal #vintage hollywood #cat and the fiddle #hey diddle diddle
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
The Ogopogo, via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1988.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Memphis State's 1987 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pentacle #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Anthropomorphized rum shutting down establishments as a footprint of the devil.  From The Foot-Prints of Satan, or, The Devil in History by Hollis Read, 1873.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lycoming's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1985 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #weathervane #rooster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1901 yearbook.

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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
Here's some occult mathematics from The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.  See Presumptive Conundrums: Rhetorical Math Questions + Answers.
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#witchcraft #occult #mathematics #math #subtraction
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Hats Off to Murder, by D. S. Nelson:

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When a hat begins life there is little to give away its future; once it is possessed it becomes a map of its owner.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #horns #gazelle
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August 16, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Facing the Sphinx by Marie Farrington, 1889.
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#religion #vintage illustration #crocodile #jesus #sun god #fish #gnosticism #illustration #1880s
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Always Remember (permalink)
Confession: we did indeed forget how folks love bubble grains.  From Motion Picture Classic, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fruit #grain #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"She went to heaven and the husband sues the messiah for $50,000."  (Given inflation, that's more like $1,600,000 today.)  From the Duluth Herald, 1895.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here are some black candles and a black box for that upcoming special occasion.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The threatening attitude."  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #threatening #self defense #woman #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
"Only men can be chairs."  From The Martlet, 1977.
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#chair #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Making Soft Toys by Gillian Lockwood.
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#cat #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The cause of most spills is here revealed, from Fantastic Adventures, 1941.  To combat impish mischievousness, see How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #imp #fairy #elf #spilled #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #dog headed #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #explosion #chair
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Old News (permalink)
The headline and the final sentence.  From The McGill Daily, 1984.
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#chaos #mayhem #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Washington's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairies
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Salem's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let's all sing like the birdies sing."  From The Film Daily, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bird #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if a muted object on the other side of the glass has even taken form and beckoned you to look beyond, to think into the future.  From Salem's 1964 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Symbols of darkness."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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August 15, 2021

Old News (permalink)
Piano in a 1/4 time signature?  (It's not what the ad means, but what if it were?)  An example of the unusual 1/4 time is Metastaseis by Iannis Xenakis.  From Motion Picture Classic, 1920.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Taken by a spirit.  From The Magician Annual, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Did you ever see a dictionary walking ... well we did!"  If there's a word for a walking dictionary, it'll be in Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.
From The Film Daily, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #dictionary #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Tuning in to the primeval scream."  It's how we begin every day.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1979.
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#vintage headline #headline #primal scream #primeval
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #cat and mouse #claws
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic and Magicians by Bill Severn, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #magician #vintage book #book #cape
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Which twin is the phoney?" -- a play on an old advertising slogan.  From Spring Hill's 1954 yearbook.
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#dog #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1954 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #pet walker #cross dresser
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daddy's Bedtime Fairy Stories by Mary Graham Bonner, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #bee #bumble bee #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #cherub #cupid #vintage yearbook #muse #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The building has been unhaunted."  From The End of a Rainbow by Rossiter Johnson, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #unhaunted
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stone tablet #caveman
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
What a nice note to a beloved teacher: "You don't know the trouble you've pulled me out of and the ocean of pleasure you've thrown me into. —Joe."  That's Joe pictured, from back when students had dignity.  From Salem's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Startling Stories, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #facial expressions #happy and sad #totem pole #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Carried away by a sheet ghost.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1949 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroic Deeds of Beowulf, illustrated by Walter Ferro.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Unlawful Occasions, by Henry Cecil:

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"We can't let you stay here. My snakes, no!"
"What have snakes got to do with it?" asked Mr. Baker. "Pardon the liberty, but I don't reckon to have heard the expression before."
"What's wrong with it?" asked Mr. Menton. "Would you prefer 'my giddy aunt'? I haven't an aunt and, if I had, it's most unlikely she'd be giddy."
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From Friends in Court, by Henry Cecil:

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He appeared to be in two minds as to what he wanted to say. Eventually one of his minds forged ahead, and he spoke.
***
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Behind every great reindeer, there's a goose.  From The True Story of Humpty Dumpty by Anna Alice Chapin, 1905.
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August 14, 2021

Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Q: "Why don't you write the words for a song?"
A: Because they might sound like Eddie Monsoon's lyrics in Absolutely Fabulous:
Walking down the road
Looking at the trees
People passing by
They say how do you look so great for your age today
I don’t know
I don’t know
From Motion Picture Classic, 1920.
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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 Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Assignment: stay at a motel in a town without attractions.  Choose your town carefully—make sure it has no attractions."  From Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background by Wayne Koestenbaum.
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#tourism #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An optical illusion!!  Close your eyes and the white rectangle will turn black."  From Ya-Hoo, 1954.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#optical illusion #close your eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #wizard #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The goblin on the chimney."  From The Fourth Golden Rule Book, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #goblin #rooftop #chimney
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #caterpillar #psychiatrist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #church #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rain #god
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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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 yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Spring Hill's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #jesus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daddy's Bedtime Fairy Stories by Mary Graham Bonner, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goblin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Taylor's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Uncle Sam as a merman.  From Nebelspalter, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #merman #uncle sam
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Chicago State's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Old News (permalink)
We can vouch for the authenticty of this headline.  "From dark skies come strange sights."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.
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#ufo #strange light #darkness #vintage headline #headline #dark sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror #nightstalker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #many faces
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August 13, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Not now!"  From Wordeater, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #caterpillar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The professor crawled into the drawing room."  From Chatterbox, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #all fours #bear costume #crawling #professor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dead at his desk."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #death #fatigue #overworked #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Call me on Friday the 13th and address me as "Friday the Thirteenth."  From Call Me Friday the Thirteenth by Betty Bates.
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#friday the 13th
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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 #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1979.
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#vintage headline #invisible man #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #trumpet #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Getting the boot.  From The Third Golden Rule Book, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #shoe
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
"Jesus divides by zero."  From Toike Oike, 2006.  See Presumptive Conundrums: Rhetorical Math Questions + Answers.
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#jesus #math #dividing by zero
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A fear of flying is not necessarily irrational.  From Unknown, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #death #airplane #fear of flying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pall Mall (1897).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology #flying horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scandinavian Legends and Folk Tales by Gwyn Jones, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Elon's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lesbian #sign #women only
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Who summons me?" said the kobold."  From It's Your Fairy Tale You Know by Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cave #kobold
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1935 yearbook.

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

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dove #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #cloud
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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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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Heads You Lose, by Christianna Brand:

***
"Can we have a look at your picture first?" said Fran, who had rather forgotten what Miss Morland's pictures were apt to be like.
***
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August 12, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A shoe with a bird in it?  It can happen!  We previously saw this floating shoe nest, this shoe full of hungry baby birds, and this dandy bird admiring the latest in footwear fashion.  This shoe with a bird is from Chatterbox, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #shoe
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hell #damned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Preaching fox."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #grotesque #anthropomorphism #fox #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Doolin, from Planet Stories, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #genie #djinn #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"From one of our possible futures."  From Blue Planet Project: Alien Technical Research - 25 (undated).
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#vintage illustration #alien #possible future
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Old News (permalink)
"The dark can't hide you!"  From Dime Mystery, 1947.
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#darkness #vintage headline #headline #dark #nowhere to hide
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ting-A-Ling by Frank R. Stockton and illustrated by E. B. Bensell, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Dreams, books are each a world."  From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1978 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#books #vintage yearbook #dreams #yearbook #quotation #wordsworth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 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 #nature spirit #folk tale #yokai #pamela colman smith
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You, too, can make the alluring string figure "Irma" in eight steps ... if only you can follow the instructions, including the intricacy of "navahoing the loop."  From Toike Oike, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#string figure
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Though it could possibly be the sun or the moon shining through the tree's branches, we've seen enough mysteriously glowing trees in old yearbooks that we take nothing for granted.  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1963 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
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#vintage ad #forgotten #trash can #garbage #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1978.
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#ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Haunters of the Silences by Charles George Douglas Roberts, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #silence #bird #wading #heron
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Here are two temporal anomalies from Birmingham-Southern's 1955 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock face
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Old News (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1979.
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#rain #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cat Who Talked To Ghosts by Lilian Jackson Braun.
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#ghost #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A (two years in) advance sheet of elite styles for 1918, from Knox College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #gun #human headed #hands up
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August 11, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"Blessed with burdens."  From Together, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #burden #blessing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Within a cavern on the moon.  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #moon #ruins #cavern
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wrap-around skirt.  From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #skirt #safety pin #wrap-around
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
War profiteers swoop in.  From La Grimace, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crow #blackbird #birds #raven
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1927 Ole Miss yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #archery #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #golem #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1919 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #pen and ink #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #pledge #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #costume #horse costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University Of Washington's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #nest #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skull face #light and dark #two-faced
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Star Saga Book J.
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#vintage illustration #alien #praying mantis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An invisible senior from Guilford's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #faceless #illustration #no face #invisible man
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Old News (permalink)
"Half believe that something's up!"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1979.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1896 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #pipe smoker #smoke shapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If I were born a fish—
     but then,
No use to wish: Men
     must be Men.
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #japanese art #poem #stingray
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Looking younger every day!"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #longevity #younger looking #anti-aging #ad
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the famous dancing ghosts that spook Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1924 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hundred Best Animals by Lilian Gask, 1914.
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#lynx
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
The great secret of the world -- sorrow is not unhappiness.  From Ethel's Book by Frederick William Faber, 1858.
* 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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#sorrow #unhappiness
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August 10, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It used to be more difficult to send mail, but at least with the old way one was more likely to receive an immediate answer.  From Chatterbox, 1908.

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#vintage illustration #postman #mailman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's all an hallucination?  It's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#prof. oddfellow #hallucination #video #penetralia
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #1960s #vintage headline #woman #vintage woman #headline #denied
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #wind #west wind
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning how to remember things."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
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#angel #memory
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The power of reading.  From Innis Herald, 1988.
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#vintage illustration #reading #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's really the only way to go -- "Unheeding, he plunged on."  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #china #travel #wandering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The tenth labor of Hercules.   From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #hercules
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard that a book is a flying carpet.  Here's proof, from Lebanon Valley's 1954 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying carpet #flying book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #hats
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1901 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #hell hole #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hell mouth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #giant tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost haunting George Washington's 2001 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Stern College's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #woodcut #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #glowing #rock
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #humor #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #laughing cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #fallen angel #dark angel
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder by Manuscript, by Lynn Maver:

***
Emma decanted the pizzas out of their boxes.

***
"And you are?"
"Potter, Sir, Edmund Potter."
Lucas waited a moment to see if there would be an "at your service," but was left disappointed.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May your great dread never hatch.  From Curse of the Dream Witch by Allan Stratton.
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#vintage illustration #dread #egg
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August 9, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Your Hand Reveals by Henri Rem, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #hand #palmistry #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rich Man and the Singer, Folktales From Ethiopia, illustrated by Christine Price.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you be free of Xenos as well as Zeno's Paradox.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #yokai
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was an old bachelor and liked to have his own way."  From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bachelor
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Old News (permalink)
"UFO & the spirit of darkness."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1981.
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#ufo #evil #vintage headline #headline #spirit of darkness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #imp #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skull #war #war dead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog
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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 #mesmerism #hypnotism #hypnotist #bamboozled #human magnetism #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois' 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #skull and bones #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The 1000 Dollar Tree."  A map from The End of a Rainbow by Rossiter Johnson, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #map #tree #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caveman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #spider #tiny man #giant spider #eaten alive
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1968 yearbook.
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#sun #ice #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Before the boys' terrified vision stood a horrible demon."  From It's Your Fairy Tale You Know by Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #demon #fairy tale
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"The storm is coming!  You know how 'tis."  From The Film Daily, 1922.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #storm #cloud #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Muhlenberg's 1956 yearbook.

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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Evangeline: Pigeon of Paris by Natalie Savage Carlson, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #bat #owl #spooky #darkness #night #creatures of the night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
It's great advice: never discuss or analyze dreams with people who weren't in the dream.  In this scene from Dark Shadows episode 327, young David is disinclined to brainstorm with Burke because Burke hadn't appeared in his dream.  He says that only the ghost Sarah could decode the dream because she had been in it.
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#dreams #dark shadows
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August 8, 2021

This May Surprise You (permalink)
"The alien has landed."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.
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#ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fun with Monsters by Richard Cummings.
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#vintage illustration #faces #makeup #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That's our first question, too, upon seeing art: "Is that oatmeal?"  From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #modern art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How will Hitler die?"  From The Film Daily, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #knife #hitler #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Remorse.  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #remorse #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Griffin versus centaur.  From Closeup magazine #1.
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#vintage illustration #griffin #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 80-U.S., 1979.
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#vintage illustration #hemispheres #brain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #gun #flying horse #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Short Stories for Little Folks by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #lion
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
There's a fine line between "missing in action" and "photographically missing."  From Southwest Texas State Teachers College's 1919 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #not pictured #missing in action #photo unavailable
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #nurse
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you had good legs in college.  From Fischer Junior's 1991 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mannequin #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Science Fiction Stories, v56 n03.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #grim reaper #horror #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's probably true that you're only as old as your arteries.  From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #aging #arteries
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder at Maddlingley Grange, by Caroline Graham:

***
[Casual Paradoxes dept.]
It was becoming obvious that the Gibbses were not even going to have the decency to run true to form. Typical.

***
[One character in this novel fancies himself a stand-in for Sherlock Holmes. He's a "tarsome" (my borrowing, not Graham's) humbug, and the narrator notes that his attempt to stride around the room in the manner of his hero might be described as more Marxian than Holmesian.  A few choice moments from his scenes...]

a. [Derek] managed to look simultaneously thrilled and complacent, which remarkable accomplishment impressed everyone far more than the lecture on the history of detective fiction.
b. Then she stretched out her arms and started to move in circles, rhythmically and very slowly: one, two, three. One, two, three. Her white linen skirt spun palely out and the glass berries on her hat shivered. Her head was cocked in an attitude of surprised happiness as if suddently alerted to the music of the spheres[....]
[Derek] did not know what to do. Holmes's suspects might have drawn a revolver or thrown a punch when his probing became too incisive. They /never/ went into their dance.
c. 'Now--I shall be interviewing in the library and will require you to come in one at a time.'
'Well, I'm not going anywhere one at a time,' said Simon. 'I'm going back to sleep.'
***
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From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fox #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from National-Louis's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook #processional #endpapers #processoinal
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that author and film critic Grumpy Andrew wore our Penetralia t-shirt on his celebrated Youtube channel.
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August 7, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"Lost wife and home.  Because he would not take her to circus."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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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 #living toy #yarn doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fable #cat #aesop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One's own fears howling in one's ears.  From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #demon #fear #personal demons
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Old News (permalink)
"Trying to make a living."  From The Varsity, Sept. 15, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three in the Jungle by Karena Shields and illustrated by Harold Petersen, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #strange light #pyramid #strange glow
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #lion tamer #lion #decapitated #eaten alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #1920s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #axe #bull #sacrifice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Masmid, June 1931.

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#vintage illustration #ex libris #bookplate #scholar
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pumpkin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Leshii, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Book of Love wasn't Cupid's only publication.  Your Future by Cupid -- from the 1915 yearbook of the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.

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#vintage illustration #divination #future #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fortune telling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From When Fairies Were Friendly by Evaleen Stein, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #birds #birdcage
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Old News (permalink)
"It's life, but not as we know it."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #magician #vintage magic #magic #rabbit #lion #hat trick
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1939 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #flying horse #folk tale
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August 6, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
That time that "a penny for your thoughts" went terribly wrong.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's paisley-capped mustachioed mushroom is from Starwind, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #faces in things #vegetables #carrot #mushroom #vegetable people #broccoli #cauliflower #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage magic #magic #sheet ghost #illustration #dancing handkerchief
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1921 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lunar #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #radio #noise
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Wingate's 1986 yearbook.

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#halloween #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #bird #egg
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ship #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some of the letters on the Ouija board are upside down and backwards.  From Wid's Daily, 1920.
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#vintage ad #ouija #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Fischer Junior's 1991 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Flying Donkey, by Christopher Bush:

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"Two people can't burn the same candle, and at both its ends."
***
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#candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Whiskers, The Autobiography of a Goat by Frances Montgomery and illustrated by W. H. Fry, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1898 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull face #egypt #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #roc
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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August 5, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #halo #1900s #illustration #holy cow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #bear #violin #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I feel only twenty one or maybe twenty two."  From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dancing #rabbit
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Old News (permalink)
"Buzzed by flying pyramid."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #pyramid #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The End of a Rainbow by Rossiter Johnson, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #comet #shooting star #starring night #minerals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #laughter #1920s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This ghost haunts Swarthmore's 1926 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#ghost #vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #jack-in-the-box #scissors #quill pen #elixir of life #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Everybody acted like assholes."  From North Carolina's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #angel #stars
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #positive and negative
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He's so very pale.  From Ghost Stories, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit photography
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We're still trying to achieve this look for all of our own portraits.  From Municipal University of Omaha's 1961 yearbook.

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#strange light #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The kingdom of the past."  From Psyche by Louis Couperus and illustrated by Dion Clayton Calthrop, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #eyes #melon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage automobile #automobile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's so difficult to find this lamp today, even on Etsy.  From Southeast Missouri State College's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You know me, I'm never optimistic."  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #optimism #pessimism #pessimist
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August 4, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How to Prove You've Shifted To a Parallel Universe: Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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Old News (permalink)
"Have you ducked for cover?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1972.
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#vintage headline #headline #ducking for cover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Quest, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Far and fast, even for a bird man."  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #space travel #earth #outer space
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #serpent #anaconda #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some Martians from Nebelspalter, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #flying saucer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Do Or Die, 1992.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #illustration #tool #wrench
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Chapel Hill's 1907 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oilke, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #dog #his master's voice #vice #record #nipper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Colorado College's 1941 yearbook.

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#spooky #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light and dark #fog #light and darkness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #skull #shadow #gold #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #rabbit #oz #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Perhaps, hereafter, it will be a delight to remember these things. —Virgil."  From William and Mary's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #memory #vintage yearbook #yearbook #remembrance #virgil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Pigs and pipes."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #musical animal #pig #bagpipes #church art
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Fingernail Clue," by Vincent Starrett:

***
His long finger moved swiftly from item to item, while he muttered idiomatic observations under his breath.

[I see unspecified "idiomatic observations" as a sort of distant cousin to maledicta.]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There are few defenses against the lips monster!  From the Drakkhen Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #lips
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Perhaps only this jet black darkness knows the answer."  From The Melancholy of the Transformer Interview (Henshin Interviewer no Yuutsu).
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#darkness #japanese
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August 3, 2021

Old News (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Peter Shaffer's Equus.  "Man clings to horses."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #levitation #weightless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, were taught by harpies.  From Swarthmore's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #harpy #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #bird people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #angel #halo #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The sky clocks."  From What Time Is It? by M. Ilin and illustrated by N. Lapshin, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #telling time #sky clock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #devil #ocean spirits #tsunami #tidal wave #stranded at sea #life raft #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lost in loveliness / Don't get around much anymore."  From Cash Box, 1954.
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#vintage ad #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Wesleyan College (Macon GA) yearbook of 1932.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #saturn #illustration #aliens #alien life
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Queens College's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cobweb #spider web
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Eric Barker's autobiography:

"I remember my grandfather on my mother's side as a kind of drooping, wet moustache with a man behind it..."

"I can get a lot of pleasure out of seeing a horse run across a field, but no more in seeing two and wondering which will win."

About a childhood neighbor:

"I can recall nothing about him save that he had charm, and was wont to utter metaphysical platitudes on the most inappropriate pretexts."

[Btw, the scrap of paper that I used to mark the facing pages containing the last two items above was, I noted with amusement later, marked "HORSE"/"PLATITUDES," which I'd done with no awareness of the wordplay thus executed.]

Regarding his catchphrase (also the title of the book), "Steady, Barker!":

"I have had letters from those who said it helped them to cure a lifelong habit of swearing, as they were able to use it instead. One old lady who shared a flat with an awkward sister at Cheltenham said they had been in danger of drfiting apart, but that now, lo! when they reached a point when it seemed neither could endure the bickering a moment longer, they both said 'Steady, Barker!' and it cleared the air."

And, to come full circle, here's his description of a man who approached him on a path one day, whose appearance inspired a character:

"[He] had a moustache that seemed to take up a good proportion of the width of the path..."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #1920s #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
She doesn't know what day or hour it is, takes absolutely everything in her tea, and adores muffins.  A gorgeous person.  From Mademoiselle Ixe by Lanoe Falconer, 1891.
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#tea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Tempter of Martyrdom."  From Centenary's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #tempter #martyrdom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939. See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost #faces in things #flying carpet #blanket #rug
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August 2, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You may listen to his lecture to-day."  Ah, memories of college!  From Chatterbox, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #goat #teacher
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Seeking to interpret a strange dream ... it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She used to sit on a high wall."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the admirable approach to joke illustrations in Count Draculations by Charles Keller and illustrated by Edward Frascino.
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#vintage illustration #bats #vampire #vampire bat #dracula #graduation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Brokenheartedly crying for days that are no more.  From Together, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #crying #tears #nostalgia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #hooded figure
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The day David Selby coudn't follow the labyrinthine plots anymore.  From Dark Shadows episode 1086.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #fox #folk tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #money #pot of gold #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A dead man wrote my story."  From Fate magazine, 1960.
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#occult #spirit writing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winston-Salem's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #robot #library #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #shoes #puppetmaster #skeleton hand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1968 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bottoms up
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #antlers #deer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage japan #vintage yearbook #yearbook #japan #shrine #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #1930s #vintage magazine #illustration #many headed #magazine
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Seton Hall's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"You haven't made it yet.  Congratulations."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1989 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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August 1, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #crow #blackbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wings enfolding the earth, from La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #earth #occult #esoteric #wings
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"He doesn't know what he saw, but he saw it."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1981.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'm tied in nots."  From Screen Guilds' Magazine, Feb. 1936.
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#vintage illustration #knot #pretzel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose by Roger Garis and illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #candle #fire leaper
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
At first glance we thought it was raining fish, but these must be salmon swimming upstream.  From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #rain #fish #rooftop #salmon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Support Assistants for Fire Emergencies, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #fire #diagram
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #egg #tiny men
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From The New Winston Second Reader by Sidney Firman and Etel Gehres, illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #sun #rabbit #folk tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1994.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #jesus #sign
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Old News (permalink)
Another misleading headline.  "Now you know ... everything."  From The Gateway, 1979.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat #bow tie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The journey of the Fool or the hatching of the transcendental egg.  From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #tarot #diagram #egg #fool's journey
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From a Robert Barnard novel

Two minutes, and in bustled Mr James Brudenell, private secretary to the Princess Helena. I suspected he liked bustling in on people, and had probably only been in the next room anyway, watering the aspidistras. He was a pouter-pigeon little man, oh-so-smart in his morning coat and trimmings, but with a fat little tummy which he thrust self-importantly before him, as if he were pregnant with a new generation of private secretaries to royalty. He had weak little eyes behind strong glasses, and a thin veneer of geniality covering a solid wedge of self-importance and conceit. I didn't greatly take to him, as you'll have gathered.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal intelligence #flamingo #smart animal
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