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, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 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 #flower #fortune telling #illustration #soothsaying
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Old News (permalink)
"The thing that will save us all."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#vintage headline #thing #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Ouija board spells B-A-T.  From The [Niles, California] Township Register, 1927.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#vintage illustration #occult #ouija
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #train #locomotive #eye #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Humanization of Man by Ashley Montagu.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #aesop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #celtic
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Old News (permalink)
"The worst coffee and how to find it."  From The Gateway, 1973.
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#coffee #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #magician #levitation #weightless
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #ant
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Old News (permalink)
"Europeans are healthier than we are."  From Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire's 1959 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline #vintage man #gymnastics #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2007.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Step on their toes."  From Broome County Technical Institute's 1968 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #card game #vintage men #men #plaing cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Death follows."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage ad #death #skeleton #grim reaper #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"It's a long walk home."  From Central Michigan University's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #hybrid #basilisk #cockatrice #heraldry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From American Indian Weekly, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #wolf
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Old News (permalink)
"They aim to please, but they don't claim to be good shots."  From Ohio University's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #oz
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August 30, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage ad #brick #brick man #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #constellation #crab #cancer
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Old News (permalink)
"Black cats are on the radar."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2009.
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#black cat #vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Men will want to run through your hair in their bare feet."  A spoof ad from Purple Parrot, 1946.
> read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage ad #long hair #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1931 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #silhouette #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Edna Walter and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #rat #painter #artistic animal
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Old News (permalink)
"To be wise is to be able to dream.  Blessed is the woman who laughs in her sleep."  From The Gateway, 1973.
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#sleep #laughter #vintage headline #headline
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
Sometimes a head literally does shine like the sun.  From East Tennessee State University's 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #bald
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"See Mars and die."  From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #giant #mars #on top of the world
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1968 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage women #sign
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Your fortune cookie said 'The wheel is turning.  This is the dark time.  What must you gain from the night?"  From The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman.
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#darkness #night #fortune cookie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1928 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #pipe smoker #1920s #fur coat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Do the impossible."  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1962 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #black widow #serial killer #art
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Old News (permalink)
"The little things prove frustrating."  From Central Michigan University's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"The neighbor I resented."  From Improvement Era, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #neighbor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1921 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Danish bog gives up."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage headline
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Mars Hill College's 1928 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
> read more from Your Ship Will Come In . . .
#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buffalo Bill Stories, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #skull #skull and crossbones #buffalo bill #crossroads #vintage magazine #magazine
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August 29, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Moot points and points about the moot."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#vintage headline #headline #moot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great Pyramid Jeezeh by Louis Philippe McCarty, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #pyramid #1900s #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Honest, I'm different!"  From The Gateway, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #coffin #vampire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1931 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I just love the idea of there being an unknown."  From Purple Parrot, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #microscope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Men in War by Andreas Latzko, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #warrior
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Old News (permalink)
"Yet, it's often a lonely world."  From Goshen College's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #loneliness #yearbook #vintage headline #lonely #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Night Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by C. M. Burd & Violet Moore Higgins, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #elf #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"Them were the days."  From The New York State Exhibitor, 1933.
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#vintage headline #nostalgia #headline #those were the days #back then #back in my day
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1968 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#beard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men #eye patch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1928 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#murder #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Goose versus fox: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1897.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fox #goose #animal fight
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Snippets from some of Wodehouse's stage-comedy collaborations:

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[from Good Morning, Bill]

SALLY: Yes, I find I quite like you now. It's the rocking-horse that has done it. [....] A rocking-horse may not have wings but one can fly on it.

***
[from Leave it to Psmith]

BAXTER: On Saturday you are due at Great Waffleden, to lay the foundation-stone of the Diddlecombe Institute.

[later, in an unrelated conversation]

PSMITH: You have no more hope than a hen trying to lay a foundation-stone.

***
[from Come On, Jeeves]

BILL: This girl can speak French with both hands.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#aurora #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Missouri Southern State University's 1992 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1990s
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Old News (permalink)
"Mother ants employ babies as needles."  From The [Niles, California] Township Register, 1927.
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#sewing #vintage headline #headline #ant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #science #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #airplane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One goat is the record player and the other is the needle.  From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #goat #musical animal #record player #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #cowboy #lasso #rodeo
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Old News (permalink)
"'Too tired' to be mayor."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  
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#fatigue #vintage headline
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August 28, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Are you afraid to look in the mirror?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mirror #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1973.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #stacked animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Technical Institute's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage man #sign #speed limit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Father said I can't marry you until you can support a family—there's six of us, you know."  From Purple Parrot, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #proposal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Dartmouth's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From In Search of Herne the Hunter by Eric Fitch. 
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#vintage diagram #diagram #herne
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ruins #rome #colosseum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #musician #diver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trombone #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1968 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #lion's den #rome #christian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #big ears #1920s #jackass #singer
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Old News (permalink)
A change for the butter [sic].  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage headline #butter #good news #headline #bright future
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #band
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #native american #arrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture News, 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 #vintage ad #vintage hollywood #stork #hollywood #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"They can't be in it for the money."  From Central Michigan University's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kalyana-Kalpataru, The Valmiki-Ramayana Number 1.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #deity #hindu art
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Old News (permalink)
"He sang to scare dingoes."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1956.
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#vintage headline #dingo #headline
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August 27, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #illustration #sign #keep off the grass
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 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 #falling #illustration #lifeboat
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Old News (permalink)
"Crossing a mountain in a boat."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #illustration #flying squirrel
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
"Smartypants times power equals stupid."  From How to Eliminate My Teacher (2020).
* Learn more about Presumptive Conundrums at Amazon.com.
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#chalkboard #japan #equation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #vintage book #book #deity #tibetan #lamaism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psychology of Personality, edited by William S. Sahakian.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #moods #psychology #making faces #smiley #emotion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A glowing tree from the glowing forests that spread through old yearbooks.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1960s #glowing tree
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fairy #seeing stars #pig #hit on the head #rolling pin #head wound #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bucknell University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #drummer #vintage yearbook #yearbook #parade #marching band
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the film Dark City (1998).  It's Instant Cities by Gunther Paul Barth, 1988.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage book #book #dark city
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1924 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage photo #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1920s #vintage men #backward clothing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Egypt of the Past by Erasmus Wilson, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egypt #statue
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ghosts far outnumber students in typical classrooms.  From Wake Forest College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ladybug #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The basics of dating haven't changed.  From the University of Arkansas' 1968 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #dating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1928 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #1920s #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I do wonder."  From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wonderment #wondering
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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August 26, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"More women than men.  But there are more boys than girls!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #tiny men #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hybrid #human headed #cat man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #knight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ask us no questions."  From The Gateway, 1973.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#don't ask #vintage illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
As if seeing modern art before it's "finished" will somehow ruin the impact!  From Lighted Pathway, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #artist #modern art #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Ford of Heaven by Brian Power.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #china
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chemistry #test tube
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Old News (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1946.
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#1940s #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Illinois University at Carbondale;s 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chemistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Apeiron, 2006.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #key #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Newton Junior College's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #worm #apple
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Old News (permalink)
"The witch, indigestion."  From The Most Wonderful House in the World by Mary Haviland, 1921.
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#witch #indigestion #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1948 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bridge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1927 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity #god #endpapers
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"Find the author of the book."  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #book #hidden picture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's fencing cacti are from the University of Arizona's 1953 yearbook.  See This Book is a Cactus.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cactus #fencing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiger #men fighting #tarzan #sabertooth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Two ways to divide the day, one of which features two full hours of pie.  From Flora Stone Mather College's 1928 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #pie chart #diagram
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Old News (permalink)
"Many objecting to grewsome [sic] exhibit."  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#vintage headline #headline
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August 25, 2023

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 St. Nicholas magazine, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #wagon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls by Charlotte Gulick, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #star #symbolism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1915 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #blindfold #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spider
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1938.
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#small talk #breaking the silence
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Time unwinds in Westminster College's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #1940s #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bowleg Bill, Seagoing Cowpuncher by Harold Felton and illustrated by William Moyers.
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#vintage illustration #whale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #peacock #vintage hollywood #hollywood #peacock woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From East Tennessee State University's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#witch #occult #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ezh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #cat and mouse #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #bone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sandman's Forest by Louis Dodge and illustrated by Paul Bransom, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #carried away
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #football
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"And the world is as it was before.  Before you fell asleep and imagined a magic hand."  From Dark Shadows episode 816.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dark shadows #count petofi
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death Turns a Trick, by Julie Smith:

***
Elena looked at me as if I'd pulled a family of rabbits out of my bra.

***
[Putting the "skin" in "scintillating" dept.]
"Like my outfit?"
"What there is of it."
"Am I fascinating?" I gave it a hard "c."
"Scintillating," he said, doing the same.

***
She bustled in, arms flying, making her purple cape a perpetual motion machine that slapped at passing waiters.
[I had to read that sentence twice to discover that the word "flapping" actually doesn't appear there. So much implied flapping!]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy boat #shoe #shoe boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Stone Mather College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #penny-farthing
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The external world, the world of mind within us, the world of eternity, and the world of everlasting punishment.
From A Great Discovery of Four Worlds and Their Inhabitants by Charles Daniel Holley, 1908.
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#four worlds
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #atlas #mythology #vintage yearbook #weight of the world
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Old News (permalink)
"Nurse's 'rival' drew out evil spirits."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1958.
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#demonic possession #vintage headline #headline #nuring
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August 24, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The songs the number sprites sing."  From Canadian Individual Arithmetics, Book C, c. 1936.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #sprite #illustration #number
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Old News (permalink)
"They seek anything and everything."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1952.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buffalo Bill Stories, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #buffalo bill #vintage magazine #magazine
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Here's the difference between Bachelors of Arts and Bachelors of Science.  From The Gateway, 1960.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #witchcraft #occult #dreaming #arts and sciences
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Old News (permalink)
"Critters make good friends."  From Missouri Southern State University's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage headline #headline #critters
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #beer #drinking #alcohol #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri at Kansas City's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #sleeping #library #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eve's Daughters, illustrated by Arthur Learned, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #devil #garden of eden #eve
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #toucan
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Maybe in the next world we'll all be cats."  (Get a head start: How to Be Your Own Cat.)
From Richmond Record-Herald, 1930.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Belmont Abbey College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #autumn #perspective #autumn leaves #endpapers #fall colors
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #night
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Old News (permalink)
"The close ones always even out."  From the University of Arkansas' 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #printing press
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Old News (permalink)
"Parade with skeletons.  Small boys have fun with a gruesome find."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#skeleton #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield State Teachers College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 97.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University'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 #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alligator #elephant #illustration
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August 23, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A sphinx drawn from memory.  From The World's Best Conundrums and Riddles of All Ages by James Gilchrist Lawson, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage book #book #1920s #illustration #conundrum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In a leaft covert hidden close, we watched the hunt sweep past."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 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 #jester #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Sidney H. Meteyard, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #darkness #night
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Dry Goods Review, 1914.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #hat #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rosicrvcian Symbology by George Winslow Plummer, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #deity #god #rosicrucian #diagram
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The desert as a dry version of the Fountain of Youth.  From This Labyrinthine Life, A Tale of the Arizona Desert by George Alexander Fischer, 1907.
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#fountain of youth #desert
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The invention of electric streetlights led to noticeably darker shadows.  From Life, 1887.

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#vintage illustration #shadow #drunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But the city girl had had no experience with angry hornets."  From Lighted Pathway, 1951.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insects #bugs #insect attack #hornet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mount Wachusett Community College's 1985 yearbook.vintage yearbook

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

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#vintage yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spoof ad from Purple Parrot, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Distinguished professors are highly regarded in their fields.  From the University of Cincinnati's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #circus #costume #weight lifting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shake-speare England's Ulysses by Latham Davis, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #shakespeare #peacock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Promise the best."  From the University of Arkansas' 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #rabbit #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Prince Thutmes sleeping in the shadow of the Sphinx."  From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #shadow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #faces in things #alarm clock #1960s #vintage headline #rude awakening #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cat has been waiting to stare into your soul since 1996.  From Tulane University School of Medicine's 1996 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #tobacco #addiction #noose #vintage headline #cigarette #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cat people
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Old News (permalink)
"Sleeping man swallows mouse.  Joking friend drops rodent in mouth as man snores."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  
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#practical joke #mouse #vintage headline
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August 22, 2023

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Great news for those with too few hours in a day: "Time is not important."  From Dark Shadows episode 43.
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#dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
So true: "The biggest audience a writer has is himself" (W. O. Mitchell).  From The Gateway, 1960.
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#writing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of Dental and Oral Surgery of New York's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #dentist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From An Artist Sees Alaska by Henry Varnum Poor.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #bird #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern College's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Undine by Heywood Sumner (1888).  From The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature by Boria Sax.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #swan #undine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Huntington College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's a strange fact that they really do walk as loud as cows and things."  From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hybrid #hooves #horned cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A crying statue from Earlham College's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #crying #living statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #russia #animal attack #leopard #panther
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Emergency exit only."  From Methodist College's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #toilet #sign #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"Does not believe in hell for wicked."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#hell #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University at Kokomo's 1986 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign #caution
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #turkey
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Freshwater, by Virginia Woolf:

NELL: A porpoise? A real porpoise?
JOHN: What else should a porpoise be?

[Note: I wrote the following "bonus" section before learning that "Trekkie" was, per Wikipedia, artist "Trekkie Ritchie Parsons (née Marjorie Tulip Ritchie)." I'm preserving the obsolete paragraph below for the record; and, meanwhile, we've gained a person bearing the middle name Tulip.]

[Bonus: The person who edited this very posthumous publication thanks, among others, someone whose given name apparently is Trekkie. The complete phrase, part of the usual roster of acknowledgees, is "Trekkie and Ian Parsons." So I figure either Trekkie and Ian are human family members sharing a surname; or Trekkie is Ian's dog or cat or parrot (getting precedence!); or Trekkie is a mononymic but forgotten celebrity who cohabits with Ian. I further reason that since the book wasn't published until 1976, the term "Trekkie," as in Star Trek fan, was probably already around, so someone might conceivably have used it as a parrot name or, if they were an ST superfan, adopted it as their own nickname.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Father Bunny and His Birds by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Penny Ross, 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 #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #speeding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kitty and Her Kits by Frances Crompton et al. and illustrated by Harriet Bennett et al., 1895.
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#vintage illustration #cat #yarn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #ex libris #bookplate
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'm just about ready to go nuts!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #world #earth #anthropomorphism #faces in things #1930s #toothache #world war
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August 21, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Voices in space.  Londoner talks from his desk to the clouds."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Down Our Street by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 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 #cat #dog #animals #frog #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Initiates costumes of New Guinea, from Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 1923. 
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#costume #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bird
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Old News (permalink)
"The voice of the ether that lured to death!"  From The New York State Exhibitor, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #death #grim reaper #skull face #phantom #radio #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture News, 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 #vintage ad #eye of god #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cave of Gold by Everett McNeil, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #cave #vintage book #book #gold
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Some spirit photography from The Gateway, 1969.
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#vintage photo #spirit photography #blurred
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Old News (permalink)
"Women's fashion governed by voodoo, planetary alignments."  From Toike Oike, 2016.
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#vintage headline #women's fashion #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we thought she was dropping a head into the flames, as per the sort of weirdness one encounters in old yearbooks.  From MacMurray College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #1960s #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #rat
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Old News (permalink)
"Let's plan a party."  From Lighted Pathway, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #party #women #vintage women #party planning #headline #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia University's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #handstand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dictionary of Ancient History, edited by P. G. Woodcock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #history
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The subject matter of sheet ghosts.  From Loyola University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #after the party
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anvil #blacksmith
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #fairy tale #illustration
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August 20, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mythologies of the Ancient World, edited by Samuel Noah Kramer.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #vintage book #book
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Drake University's 1960 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From O, Those Extraordinary Women by Seon Manley and Susan Belcher.
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#vintage book #book #letter o
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Washington & Lee's 1980 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees #blurred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Edna Walter and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tom thumb #thistle
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Old News (permalink)
"Marriage -- benefit by my mistakes."  From Purple Parrot, 1946.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#regret #marriage #vintage headline #woman #vintage woman #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mirror #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"A crocodile doesn't go to Sunday school."  From The Instructor, 1967.
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#crocodile #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #ax #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pursued
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Frog versus rat: which would you wager to win?  From Three Minute Stories by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Josephine H. Bruce, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #mouse #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Your shadow's not invisible, anyhow."  From The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, 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 #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.  See Secrets of Guinea Pig Whispering.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #guinea pig
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Some snippets from The Idler, Feb. and March 1892:

***
My proposal is that amateur performances shall take place in dumb show and also in the dark.

***
I confess I felt hurt. People should be careful what they say in a haunted house.
[...]
The game is not worth the phosphorescence.

[That piece in full: https://archive.org/details/sim_idler-an-illustrated-monthly-magazine_1892-03_1/page/194/mode/2up?view=theater]

***
[re. the bygone "lion comique" type of performer]
"that opera hat that closed at every joke, and opened at every noble sentiment"

***

 

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes by Harrison Adams and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #native american #cougar
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
"A class in American literature: 'So this distance is 18 6/13 after eight— it comes out 13ths instead of 11ths— I've never worked this problem before!"  From Winthrop College's 1932 yearbook.
* Learn more about Presumptive Conundrums at Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #1930s #illustration #professor #strange math
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What they need is WOW!"  From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1970s #illustration #wow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Law of love and truth as pole star to world free from strife."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.
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#world peace #vintage headline
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August 19, 2023

The Right Word (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #oyster #cat #riddle #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Women who doubt."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  
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#doubt #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #hawaii #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From India Explained by B. J. Vaswani, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage diagram #diagram #manpower #workforce
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 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 #serpent #snake #esoteric #uroboros #ouroboros #eating its own tail #symbolism #snake eating itself
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #as seen by
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Old News (permalink)
"Sorrow can be a blessing in disguise."  From Lighted Pathway, 1959.
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#vintage headline #sorrow #blessings #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do you have any tarantulas?"  From Purple Parrot, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spider #tarantula
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Butterflies often visit the flowers of the lance-leaved thistle."  From Elementary Science by Grades Book Three by Ellis Persing and Elizabeth Peeples, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #thistle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1953 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #statue #guardian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Record Changer, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #musician #jazz #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey #bell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Jerome's College's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1825.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #bat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson Colleges 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "Hi There" (1975) by J. T. C.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #scythe #1970s
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August 18, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Easy Growth In Reading Workbook to Accompany I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Roy, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #robin #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Dark Shadows episode 1027.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From An Alphabet of Old Friends by Walter Crane, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alphabet #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog
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Old News (permalink)
"Baffled by a strange gap in time."  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 2007.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #alien abduction #lost time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The boy that whacked the witch's toadstools."  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #sword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animals #frog
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Path To Rome by Hilaire Belloc.
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#punctuation #symbols #wordless #dialogue
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #giant toy #vintage woman #raggedy ann #1950s #giant doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #illness
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Out of a misty dream."  From Assumption College's 1976 yearbook.
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#sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #swimming #1970s #diver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #on fire #burned alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sefer, vol. 18, no. 1. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #aura #architecture #buildings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Will it be trousers for women?"  (Note how the artist gave Ann Harding a five o'clock shadow.)  From Movie Classic, 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 #1930s #vintage magazine #magazine
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Nice People, by Rachel Crothers:

"Rena is so intellectual her dinners are stupid. The repartee sounds like the encyclopedia."
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
She went by the name "Psycho."  From Human Culture, 1907.
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#occult #aura #electricity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #hanged man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 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 #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pluck and Luck Complete Stories of Adventure, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #submarine #magazine
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August 17, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From P's and Q's: A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement by Sallie B. Tannahill, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #diamond #illustration #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"A star brighter than the sun.  The awful brillians of its early days.  Years before we know the truth about it."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#sun #astronomy #star #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #science fiction #monster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #polecat
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Old News (permalink)
We hear too little about how a game of chess can save a marriage.  Note the near-subliminal symbolism here -- he's pinching his queen's nub.  From The Instructor, 1959.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage photo #marriage #vintage headline #chess #headline #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Little Egyptian Cousin, written and illustrated by Blanche McManus, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egypt #map #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elephant #vintage yearbook #drunk #hallucination #hangover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy Who Won by Fannie E. Ostrander and illustrated by R. Farrington Elwell, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ram
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Old News (permalink)
"The way leads on.  Is there another way?"  From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1977 yearbook.
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#taoism #vintage yearbook #vintage headline #that's the way #the way
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Harrison Weir for Chatterbox, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #dog clothes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1920 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #donkey #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwood Institute's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#snow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #armillary sphere
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Old News (permalink)
"Beware of penguins crossing the road."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage headline #advice #penguin #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Tiny people are served.  From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cauldron #vintage yearbook #cannibalism #tiny people
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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 #fire breather #salamander #heraldry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #cells
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Old News (permalink)
"Lightning strips sheets off pair."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#lightning #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"The spell of Gypsy music.  Every phase of Hungarian life is bound up with it."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#vintage headline #hungary #romany
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #vintage book #greek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Crow and the Whitewash by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fire #hollow tree #raccoon
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August 16, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"We beg to differ."  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.
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#vintage ad #1960s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Arrival of the commercial magician."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #magician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 28.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #spirit #crystal ball #seance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Rhode Island's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eyeglasses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Man of Molokai by Ann Roos.
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#vintage illustration #saint #vintage book #book #Father Damien of Molokai
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Picture Show, 1920.
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#cat #1920s #vintage hollywood #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1977 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #costume #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1958 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modern art
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and were reminded of how John Steinbeck wrote of "the hour of the pearl ... when time stops and examines itself" (Cannery Row).
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#temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mount Union College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #politics #vintage headline #headline #1950s #tweedledee #tweedledum
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Cubists."  From the University of Cincinnati's 1918 yearbook.  See Astragalomancy: A Loaded Guide: Intriguing Readings of 21 Discrete Dice Throws.
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#vintage illustration #dice #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Bonenalabahmah" delivers a single Google result, for this headline.  From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Texas State College's 1936 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #hands up #lasso
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Motto: "We have all got the big head."  From Denison University's 1891 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying #big head #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"His mother felt very sad when she saw the pot."  From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #kettle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #goodbye #au revoir
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #virgo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Spelling Program 6 by Thomas and Braun, 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bookworm #illustration
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August 15, 2023

Old News (permalink)
Reblog if a castle in the air is your second home, too.  From Lighted Pathway, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #1960s #vintage headline #illustration #castle in the air #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mary Magdalene by R. L. Bruckberger.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #mary magdalene
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Precursors (permalink)
A quarter century before Dali's melting watch in "Persistence of Memory," there was this melting clock tower in The Book of Spice by "Ginger" a.k.a. Wallace Irwin, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #alcoholism #surrealism #drunk #three moons #warped #1900s #melting building #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia University's 1915 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #cigarette #vintage man #man #smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of letters of apology, but there are also letters of mythology.  From Letters Concerning Mythology by Thomas Blackwell, 1748. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#mythology #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Old News (permalink)
"Nobody knows why."  From Current Sauce, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1977 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#skeleton #vintage yearbook #mannequin #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mouse #rat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown University School of Medicine's 1963 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Health Guide: Aiming At a Higher Science of Life and the Life-forces, Giving Nature's Simple and Beautiful Laws of Cure, the Science of Magnetic Manipulation, Bathing, Electricity, Food, Sleep, Exercise, Marriage, and the Treatment for One Hundred Diseases: Thus, Constituting a Home Doctor Far Superior to Drugs by Edwin Babbit, 1874.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Some snippets from Dorothy Parker reviews:

***
It has far more plot and a much more connected story than most musical comedies. In fact, it's chock full of connected story; you don't get away from it for a minute. Large segments of connected story are always lying around the stage, getting in the way of the chorus.

***
They use the word "scintillating" as frequently and as proudly as if they had just coined it.

***
I take issue (there is nothing better for that morning headache than taking a little issue).
[Btw, this bit strikes me as very "Steve Allen" (though it predates his career).]

***
Slack or no slack, out come books, any kind of books, any kind at all. The publishers take no advantage of their blessed leisure. They go right on publishing, all out of control. It seems to be a compulsive activity, a species, I should suppose, of tic.

***
The book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

***
His lovely ladies step out of Edith Wharton, and his graceful gentlemen come from Henry James (whenever you say Edith Wharton, you have to say Henry James right after. If you don't, you'll have bad luck all day).

***
[this one's from a letter]
Alan and I are working on a little opera which was originally named "Twenty-two Hours by Air," but it has been kicking around the studio for a long time, during which aerial transportation has made such progress that it is now called "Eleven Hours by Air." By the time we are done, the title is to be, I believe, "Stay Where You Are."
***
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The Right Word (permalink)
So great when a character speaks her punctuation.  This period is from Dark Shadows episode 75.  There's also that time Carolyn Stoddard spoke an exclamation point.
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#punctuation #dark shadows #period
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #angora
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Old News (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #eyes #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boat #illustration #rowboat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ostrich
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tightrope walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's an example of how a diamond makes anything classy.  From Fantastic Science Fiction, vol. 5, no. 04.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gemstone #diamond #crystal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The daily struggle to get into your office before the doppelgänger does.  From Carleton College's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#twins #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache #doppelgänger #vintage man #moustache #man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #scissors #faces in things #1920s #illustration #paste
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August 14, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"On the moon, the earth would shine with a light forty times greater than moonlight."  From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 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 #earth #outer space #moon
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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 #dervish #sufi #whirling dervish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reading for Meaning, Practice For Come Along by Paul McKee et al., 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #rabbit costume #bunny costume #rabbit people #bunny people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of Dental and Oral Surgery of New York's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Apparently, there was a time when the world went very well.  From The World Went Very Well Then by Walter Besant, 1887.
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#vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pirate ship #shipwreck #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #stranded at sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #crying animal #lily pad #crying frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Even paranoid shoeshine customers have mop-wigged enemies.  From Saint Francis College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #shoeshine #mop wig
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
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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 #whale #hunter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#owl #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's singing Pegasus is from Wheaton College's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #winged horse #singing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #spoof ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #swimming
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I found your husband."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #after the party
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From DePauw University's 1928 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Ugliness is cheap today."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Chair of journalism.  From Carleton College's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #journalism #toilet #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Coming behind me, thrusting his great head between my legs."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cow #illustration
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August 13, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fabeln by by Peter Hagboldt, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #frog #lion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #stoat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack #arctic
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #bird #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I could roll yarn all my life."  From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #faces in things #yarn #yarn ball
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Old News (permalink)
"Put your ear to the ground!"  From The New York State Exhibitor, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ear #vintage headline #headline #severed ear #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Forest by Stewart Edward White, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
So much more elegant to drop the colon to the second line.  From the rare Faith: Its Nature and Meaning, edited by Paul Surlis.
> read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .
#vintage book #book
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A book dedicated to a woman who cheerfully shared her home with lowly creatures who spin webs, leave slime trails, and scurry about on six or eight legs, even though she never professed a fondness for such types.  From Captive Invertebrates by Fredric Frye.
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#insect #book dedication
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #magick #buddhism #occult #tibetan
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #black cat #astrology #creature of the night #night sky #stars #worship #vintage headline #night vision #headline #art #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Let the trumpet blare, the drum roll, the cannon speak."  From Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire's 1959 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drum #cannon #trumpet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose In Silhouettes by Katherine Gough Buffum, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #apple
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #transformation #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The (Berkeley) Wizard, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #the end #waving goodbye #adios
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #world #atlas #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #weight of the world #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The King of the Mamozekel by Charles G. D. Roberts and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #moose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Being "in the doghouse" is sometimes literal.  From Saint Francis College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #doghouse #1960s #vintage man #dog man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alligator #eaten alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #weightless #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How the Old World Found the New by Barnard and Tall, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #aztec
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August 12, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Midsummer Night's Dream.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy #shakespeare #midsummer's night dream #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Elephant versus monkey.  Which do you wager for the win?  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant #monkey #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #mouse #queen #oz #1890s #illustration #mouse queen
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

Begin now because …

  • to do the thing properly requires time and champagne, and at present neither are handy
  • even those who have the highest hopes are worried
  • things that you see around you will change
  • the clock is ticking
  • it looks like rain
  • it is not going to go away
  • we cannot afford to wait until a better technology comes along
  • we will need all our imagination and our wisdom to cope with some of the critical moral questions soon to be thrust upon us
  • the process can be long and challenging
  • solutions will likely time time
  • the risks are too grave and despite the associated difficulties, there is a great potential for good
  • budget limits are already in place
  • there’s so much to cover tonight
  • of the great amount of lead time required
  • we have become totally morally decadent
  • it will be easier now
  • the longer we delay, the further behind we will fall
  • the complexities start to snare you
  • when we do recover we are going to recover because we put things on a sound basis
  • it is a revolutionary time

[Snippets gathered through the course of our research]
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#list
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Students!  Is sweet swing hotter than hot swing or is hot swing sweeter than sweet swing?  That's right, you're wrong."  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage ad #professor #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare We Married An Englishman by Ruth and Helen Hoffman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #goose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Hades Speaks! A Guide To the Underworld By the Greek God of the Dead, by Vicky Alvear Shecter and illustrated by J. E. Larson, in which we hail the illustrations for bringing the underworld to life (as it were).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hell #bat man #cape #hades #bat wings
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Old News (permalink)
"Learn to weave time in a tapestry."  From Indiana State's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #fabric of time #vintage headline #weaving #headline #tapestry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #spoon #medicine #tiny woman #1950s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1895 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baseball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #bear #hunter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia University's 1915 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock tower #newborn #stork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1877.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #1870s #if you had wings #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The spirit of the handshake is what makes it a binding contract.  From James Millikin University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers: Fun and Frolic by Mary Elizabeth Pennell, et al. and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #clown #vintage book #circus #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #vintage yearbook #melting building #law
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Four by William H. Elson & Edna R. Kelly and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #elf #goose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #cat people #cat headed #illustration #bobcat
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Old News (permalink)
"Non-athlete had best avoid exercise."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1952.
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#exercise #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goucher College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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August 11, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Make a birthday cake.  Do not color it.  It is white."  From Manual for Teaching the Primer The Little White House by Russell & Ousley, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Time for some tingle-ingle-ingle-ing!
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I am your [lady]."  From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A time when trust has slipped away into the darkness."  From Dark Shadows episode 309.
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#darkness #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Madame Defarge, from The Suffragist, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #yarn #knitting #suffragette #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spoof ad from The Purple Parrot, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #beer #snowman #alcohol #spitting #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Old News (permalink)
"Visitors from the stars are filling our sky."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2009.
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#ufo #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Foxes, a Chinese Legend, told in English by Mrs. Archibald Little, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #automaton #robot #teacher #home owner #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Plover by G. E. Theodore Roberts and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #wolves #native american #torch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #hitler #sign
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Who Stole My Golden Metaphor?" by S. J. Perelman:

"I'm through with that dilettante stuff," said Vernon. "I've been designing some nonobjective puppets."
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#puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's furniture pulled by a rocking horse is from The Book of Hobbies; or, A Guide to Happiness by Charles Taussig and Theodore Meyer, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #furniture #rocking horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Bow[o]ling."  From the University of Cincinnati's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bowling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #insect people #bug people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pianist #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wolf versus horse: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #horse #wolf #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The 'All ???' club."  From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #gay #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Jim and Judy by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #up a tree
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August 10, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hidden Witchery by Nigel Tourneur and decorated by Will Mein, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #sunrise #illustration #lake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #bird #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Ugly Face by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #coyote #bird #native american #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #boot #illustration #shoe stretcher
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Old News (permalink)
"I love my jam, but Oh, You ----."  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#vintage headline #headline #jam
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Old News (permalink)
"First, try power -- then try more power."  From The Gateway, 1968.
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#power #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird #robin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An Australian wombat fur coat mistaken for three cats' father.  From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage fashion #fur coat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box #spring
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Beautiful day goes on through rain and cloud."  From Michigan Christian College's 1973 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#rainy day #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #pipe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eve's Daughters, illustrated by Arthur Learned, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #1920s #pet walker #walking the monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cat in the corner, from the delightful and rare The Unicorn with Silver Shoes by Ella Young and illustrated by Robert Lawson.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Think about it ... there has to be more to life than popularity, or thrills, or material wealth, or whatever."  From Michigan Christian College's 1973 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #ocean
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #bear #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Mystic VII."  From Winthrop University's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cauldron #vintage yearbook #secret society #hooded figure #1890s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #1940s #ink pen
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Old News (permalink)
"Balm of peace or bomb of war."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1950.
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#vintage headline #war and peace
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #occult #spirit
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August 9, 2023

Colorful Allusions (permalink)
From Elements of Interior Decoration by Augustus Sherrill Whiton, 1944.
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#vintage diagram #color theory #color #diagram #color wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #wind #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1920s #walking the dog #shoes #pet walker #big shoes
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Old News (permalink)
"Life after death."  From Lighted Pathway, 1978.
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#life after death #sphinx #egypt #pyramid #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1939.
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#beard #pipe smoker #1930s #wanted poster #disguise #most wanted #wanted dead or alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A head full of spirals, exclamation points, the occasional question mark, and Saturn.  From Millsaps College's 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dry Goods Review, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat
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Old News (permalink)
"Could you kiss a man who repels you?"  From Motion Picture Classic, 1929.
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#vintage headline #kissing #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1974 yearbook.

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#frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Charles Mills Gayley's The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (1893).
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#vintage illustration #mythology #wings #greek mythology #icarus #crete
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #dandies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rowena's Happy Summer by Celia Myrover Robinson and illustrated by Hope Dunlap, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #flowers #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #clubs
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Why fly over the scenery?  Travel right through it!"  From Improvement Era, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #travel #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #wind #oz #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Juniata College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #athletics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 1896.
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August 8, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #earth #illustration #oblate #spheroid
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Old News (permalink)
"Nature has her way and disappoints us all."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage headline #mother nature #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #rooftop #chimney #radio #vintage magazine #antenna
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A full-sized head on the jester's marotte.  From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Olio of Isms, Ologies and Kindred Matter by E. S. Metcalf, 1899.
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#isms #vintage book #book #ologies #olio
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Dartmouth's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meat grinder
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Cute lipstick ad, promising that the lipstick will stay on your letters almost as long as it will on your lips.  From Purple Parrot, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #women #vintage women #lipstick #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1928 Ole Miss yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Thoracic type: "the 'thriller.'"  From How To Analyze People On Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #body type
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State University's 1963 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
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Old News (permalink)
"Is a nervous breakdown your worry?"  From TV Radio Mirror, 1961.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #nervous breakdown #headline #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Bird Life at the Pole, by Wolcott Gibbs:

***
I entered the discoveries at appropriate intervals on a blank map of the polar region which had been donated to the expedition by the National Geographic Society.

[Resulting map attached, along with a screen-cap snippet and a "who needs context?" illustration.]

Gibbs_magicianGibbs_trio

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Crystal Locket by Nellie M. Rowe and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sledgehammer
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"Find Earl Roberts."  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #hidden picture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #painter #musician
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Old News (permalink)
"Have sense of humor."  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#humor #sense of humor #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #inkblot #spilled ink #quill pen #1920s #ink
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #tennis #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator Linda De Volder reports that "many of the Maltese churches [like this one, St Joseph's] have two clocks, showing different times.  We were told one shows the correct time for the religious locals, while the other shows the wrong time to confuse Satan from disturbing the mass.  Sometimes the second clock is not even real but a very good likeness painted on the church.  Or the hands on the fake clock are missing."
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#clock #temporal anomaly
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August 7, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Unknown becomes."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A slight scratch means nothing to me, but it might be different with you."  From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"Living in dread.  That anxious feeling of impending doom.  One continuous string of weakness, nervousness amd woe."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anxiety #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #throne #1920s #ant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Traditional Balinese Culture by Jane Belo.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintgae book #balinese
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alo Man, Stories of the Congo by Mara Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rollin Crampton, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #leopard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #cat #animal headed #vintage yearbook #hybrid #cat people #cat headed #cat women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A hundred thousand people stood outside the house where merriment was rife and stomped their feet, and bellowed back and forth about the cost of living, and of Life."  From The Purple Parrot, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook #fireworks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He had a strong urge to throw a nice, hard, water-soaked snowball past her erect, gray head."  From Lighted Pathway, 1951.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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#vintage illustration #winter #snowball #hostility
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia University's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Osiris, from History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes of Antiquity by William Sheldon, 1816.
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#vintage illustration #osiris #deity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trumpet #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From House Scraps by G. Duckworth Atkin and illustrated by Geo. Cruickshank, F. C. Gould, and Lucien Davis, 1887.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #cat people #rooftop #cat man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Thrilling Western, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #balloon #balloon head #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crutches #wounded #keys
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oft in the Stilly Night" -- a 1909 postcard sent from a friend. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #rooftop #chimney #1900s #vintage postcard #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Be well-suited for every occasion."  From Ohio University's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage ad #cemetery #graveyard #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #advice #vintage man #man #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pig #illustration
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August 6, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Nature of Matter by Courneya & McDonald, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clown #illustration #unicycle
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hidden picture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crab #sea life #fish #under the sea #hermit crab #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #inkblot #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Birds' legs bend backward."  From The Instructor, 1956.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drawing #chalkboard #bird #cartooning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#knight #vintage illustration
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #sheet music #fairy music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #stork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearts and Masks by Harold MacGrath and illustrated by Harrison Fisher, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monk #hooded figure
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Women and Wilderness by Anne LaBastille.
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#vintage photo #chicken #cowgirl
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Man and the Renaissance by Andrew Martindale.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wind Wagon by David Cory and illustrated by P. H. Webb, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #princess
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The deity Fever, from History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes of Antiquity by William Sheldon, 1816.
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#fever #deity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #firefly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A cat who blows bubblegum crystal balls (not pictured).  From the University of Toronto's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #spilled ink #winking cat #winking animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #peter piper #splits
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #tennis #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And I said, 'What you need is a good punch in the mouth.'"  From The Purple Parrot, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #doctor #1940s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #cat people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Song of Sixpence Picture Book by Walter Crane, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #blackbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When shall we three meet again?" (Shakespeare's Macbeth).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #shakespeare #macbeth #rooftop
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August 5, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A cat may look at a king."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #cat #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"World's creatures are not wild by nature.  They readily respond to kindness and like human friendship."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1952.
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#humanitarianism #animals #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #oz #1890s #flowers #poppies
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Hero. — Every book must have a description of its hero — so therefore this [yearbook] must have one.  He is nice and big and comfortable.  Not a bit 'bony.'  I call him homely but my mother doesn't think that's nice.  But he knows I love him when I tell him he's homely.  He doesn't call up very much; consequently he doesn't know when you're ill; probably it's just as [well]."  From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hero
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Old News (permalink)
"A day in the life of the ziggerzaggers."  From Little Wide Awake, 1885.
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#vintage headline #zigzag #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State University of New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences at Binghamton's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #buffalo #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat #monocle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oregon State College's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From I Had to Know by Gladys Baker.
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#knowledge #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Just some of the ghosts from Birmingham-Southern College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #organ grinder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #on fire #burned alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mountaintop #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sheep #1890s
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Old News (permalink)
"All right then—I'll go to hell!"  From Motion Picture Classic, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #hell #mark twain #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The candle is burning my hand."  From Ohio State University's College of Dentistry's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #candle #hallowe'en #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spirit writing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton College's 1878 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rude awakening
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tale of Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bunny #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Tower of the Sun," at night.  From The Wizard, 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 #architecture #starry night #night #tower
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August 4, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rosicrvcian Symbology by George Winslow Plummer, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #sacred geometry #rosicrucian #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Graphology for Everyman by Eric Singer.
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#vintage illustration #handwriting analysis #graphology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Re-Visioning Psychology by James Hillman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #playing cards #psychology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National-Louis' 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking stick #cape
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Tip of the day: erase your memories of 25 years in the future.  "If you take my advice, you'll forget all about 1995."  From 1970: Dark Shadows episode 1089.
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#time travel #advice #dark shadows #bad advice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The rarely-seen Latin pony.  From Blackstone College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #monster #burma
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Modern Mechanix, 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 #eyesight #eye test
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sul Ross State University's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #imp #clock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Note the monument to Darkness itself, as well as the horned ghost.  From Lebanon Valley College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #initiation #secret society
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Old News (permalink)
"Increase of the visible."  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#vintage headline #headline #visible
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's pig eating mystery meat is from Hampden-Syndey's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pig
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hidden picture
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Affair of the Reluctant Witness," by Erle Stanley Gardner:

***
"Won a beauty contest and was Miss Something-or-other in nineteen forty-three."

***
Mugs Magoo found Jerry Bane...completely absorbed in a book entitled The Mathematics of Business Management. Beside him on the smoking stand was a slide rule with which Bane had been checking the conclusions of the author.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Stories My Children Love Best of All by Edgar Dubs Shimer and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Dentistry's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #big mouth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tongue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sandman: His Songs and Rhymes by Jenny Wallis, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spider #cobweb #spider web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You're invited to the ghost party.  From Marion College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #ghost party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fabeln by by Peter Hagboldt, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #fox #illustration #stork
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August 3, 2023

Precursors (permalink)
Perhaps Van Engen's "seeing through mathematics" (1964) is a precursor to the transparent math proofs defined by Babai, Fortnow, Levin & Szegedy (1991).
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#math
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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 #silhouette #vintage book #book #rock carving #neolithic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #donkey #kicked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Simmons College's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower #skunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artgum, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #adam and eve #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myself and I by Helen Van Valkenburgh and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wind
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Personified holidays like these, from old theatrical books, can be used to create your own divination deck.  We explain the easy process in this article.  This particular set of characters is from Let's Pretend: A Book of Children's Plays by Lindsey Barbee, 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 #personification #archetypes #holiday
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #all dogs go to heaven
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mouse's Tail by Helen Pettes and illustrated by Julia Greene, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #milk
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1911 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baseball #open mouthed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"At every move of your hand, your nails are conspicuous."  From Motion Picture Classic, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1920s #fingernails #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Someone goofed."  From Newton Junior College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #arrow through the head
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"A new hat from a pot of beans."  From Improvement Era, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #magic trick #hat #beans #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #doctor #vintage yearbook #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars #illustration #football
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Old News (permalink)
"Thanks you but wants more."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1934.
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#vintage headline #headline #thankfulness
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The world is moving too fast."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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#earth #vintage headline #headline
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August 2, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Must you look 10 years older 10 years from now?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.
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#vintage ad #aging #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Minnesota's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #gemstone #tiny woman #diamond #engagement ring #bling #diamond ring
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #eyes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weston's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #zodiac #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mental Disease by Peter Michaels.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #triangle #hand of god
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hobo #railroad track
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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 #shoe #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men #refrigerator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's turkey-buzzard falling on a griffin is from The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #griffin #buzzard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #veterinarian
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Rabbit dravy [sic]."  From Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman by Annie Fellows Johnson and illustrated by Reginald B. Birch, 1913.
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#vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Our custom Uncanny Detector app confirmed our suspicion that this is a portal.  It's "The Ocellus," from Minot State College's 1984 yearbook.
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#portal #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sculpture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #marotte
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #faces in things #candle #moth to the flame #1920s #the people could fly #insect people #candles with faces #candle face
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Old News (permalink)
"Robins outwit a cat.  When baby bird falls on ground they lure enemy away."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#cat #bird #robin #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A clock as a mood meter.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #1960s #mood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Snickerty Nick by Julia Ellsworth Ford and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #tree spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #contortionist #headstand #twisted #yoga
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #automaton #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lafayette College's 1909 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 #newspaper #newspaper fashion #newspaper clothing
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #labyrinth #maze
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1964.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #magic #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gone, gone, gone away."  From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #window #illustration #abandoned #living toy #toy
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Old News (permalink)
"Strange experiments.  Is the world going backward?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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#earth #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Japan, 1861.  Via the Waseda University Library archive.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #dragon #japan
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
There isn't anything anybody can do, because it's too late for a solution now ... and nothing, nothing can stop it.  Time is up; the crystal ball has spoken.  From Dark Shadows episodes 259, 585, 577, and 48.
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#out of time #too late #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ouija #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adventure, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #map #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This presumably means that the waiter can tell the diner can't afford to order lobster, but at first glance we thought the waiter took the diner for a lobster, as in "Yes, we serve food to lobster diners."
Guest: "Do you serve lobsters?"
Waiter: "Yes, sir.  What will you have?"
From The Goblin, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lobster #waiter #comic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #globe #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A curiously graceful Venetian wrought iron bed, with beautiful old silk damask hangings, from an old palace."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Missouri Southen State College's 1976 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #winged lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reptiles and Amphibians by Feberal Writers' Project, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #alligator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 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 #fairy tale #tree #magic tree #enchanted tree #apple
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Radiance of Jane Austen," by Eudora Welty:

Miss Bates, though always so ready to go anywhere, is not movable; she is part of Emma.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cave #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #organ grinder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #rabbit #robin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #horse #goat #animal friends
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Old News (permalink)
Great news: "Not impossible to get money."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#money #vintage headline #headline
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