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August 31, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Promenading with a suitable background.  From Punch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Old News (permalink)
"A giant hand from the skies."  From The Children's Newspaper1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #monster #eaten alive
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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 #medieval #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #bed
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Old News (permalink)
"Fire is no respecter of persons."  From The Improvement Era, 1922.
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#fire #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 #dragon #wyvern #heraldry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Eastern Illinois University's 1972 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Frog financiers, from St. Nicholas, 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
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Old News (permalink)
From You Can, But Will You? by Orison Swett Marden, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Official UFO, 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 #ufo #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"H2OCNCH. —Gradually I'm getting invisible."  From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#mad scientist #vintage yearbook #1930s #invisible man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #makeup #lipstick #1950s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1971 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)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College’s 1931 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 #harp #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #angel #party
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #fishbowl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 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 #torch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1910 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Without giants, our culture and our imaginations would start to feel pretty small indeed.  Lucky for us, all the giants of the fantasy world are much too enormous to ever disappear" (Shannon Knudsen, Giants, Trolls and Ogres)
Illustration from Wizardry Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clothing: A Comprehensive Study by Hazel Thompson Craig, 1968.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1960s #illustration #face shapes
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August 30, 2024

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mississippi State College for Women's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #outer space #vintage yearbook #yearbook #saturn #1930s #illustration #the people could fly
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We're honored that WRCT 88.3 FM played Neons Gone Mad's "Sojurn in the Holo-Desert" on Aug. 28, 2024.  
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#neons gone mad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#vampire #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #duck #pig #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #women #vintage women
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin 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 #monkey #yearbook #harlequin #tambourine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ape #theatre #tarzan
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Old News (permalink)
"Liquor: the Devil in solution."  From The Improvement Era, 1967.
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#devil #liquor #alcohol #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alligator #vintage yearbook
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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 #animal attack #cougar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Assumption College's 1988 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage yearbook #cat people
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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 #anthropomorphism #fish #cod liver oil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #howling #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mercury, 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 #serpent #occult #mercury #vintage magazine #magazine #caduceus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bay Path College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #mouse #shoe
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."  From Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
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#disorder #melville
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Bookman (New York), April 1920:

[Attached: a "bon mot incarnate"]


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The spirit meets its children."  From Drawings Descriptive of Spirit Life and Progress, 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 #spirit #spiritualism #afterlife #astral body
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio College of Dental Surgery's 1902 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 #wishbone #illustration #bow-legged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He frightened her."  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 #dog #illustration #fear of dogs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #running #track
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Honking and hissing like a bewildered orchestra."  From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 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 #duck #1900s #illustration
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August 29, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
George Hathaway's American Goodwill Table from the Chicago World's Fair. "Made of 75,288 pieces of wood from all parts of the world, including the Mount of Olives, the Longfellow chestnut tree, Old Ironsides, Oliver Perry's flagship, the Washington elm tree, the White House, Helen Keller's birthplace, etc."  From 1933, via UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#goodwill #vintage postcard #1930s #furniture #world's fair #table #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Friends and New Fables by Alice Talwin Morris and illustrated by Carton Moorpark, 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 #kangaroo #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats and Kttens by Edgar Werner, 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 #mouse #cheese #1900s #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #donkey #illustration #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The booze artist."  From Hampden-Sydney College's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #alcoholic #bottle
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Old News (permalink)
"The wolves are starving."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage headline #starvation #headline
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Old News (permalink)
The Hoop Pole, from Mount Vernon's 1917 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Dancing globes of light spin a circle of mystery."  From BUFORA Newsfile, 1996.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #strange lights
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson State Teachers College's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #heart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dickon Bend-the-Bow and Other Wonder Tales by Everett McNeil and illustrated by Rob Wagner, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#giant #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oglethorpe College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#death #cemetery #graveyard #open grave #burial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #vintage men #funeral #men
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1967.
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#vintage ad #vitamins #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Foreword.  Here's the thing we are tring to say—."  From Ball State University's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #foreword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The unity of religions.  From Mysteria, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana Technical College's 1972 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Plucked by geese.  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goose #tables turned
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There's a mysteriously glowing forest that spreads through old college yearbooks.  From Purdue University's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Eve's dropping.  From The Old Line, 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 #garden of eden #adam and eve
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Wabash College's 1926 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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August 28, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Try This On For Size! Teacher's Guide by Verna Lefebvre, 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 #hair styles #face shapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#ghost #book design #spiritualism #heart
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage headline #hat #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Life is not a cabaret, my friend; it's a perpetual halloween."  From the University of Georgia's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #vintage yearbook #cabaret
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Oglethorpe College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #knife #vintage headline #pocket knife #headline #better late than never
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #piggy bank #pig #cracked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's been said that a hairstyle alone can't make up for a forgettable face.  From Century Magazine, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #wig #faceless #no face #vintage hair #hair styles #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Defiance College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #musical animal
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1962.
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#effigy #vintage photo #1960s #doll #woman #vintage woman
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Who's left to watch the sunset when we're gone ..."  From Bay Path College's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #sunset
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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)
Today's boxing swami is from the University of the South's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #boxing #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Seeing which way the cat will jump."  From Punch, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #swimming
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Old News (permalink)
"Husbands who are housewives."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The magic 'T.'"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.  
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#vintage ad #capital t #letter t #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #lacrosse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein'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 #pipe smoker #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #beaver
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August 27, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lack of self-control is shown in this face."  From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #1930s #illustration #making faces #out of control
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Everyday Foods by Harris & Lacey, 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 #vintage diagram #nutrition #1920s #diagram #illustration #food #vegetable
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #mushroom #illustration #poem #1950s #imaginary animal
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#vampire #video #penetralia #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"Rise and fall of man is depicted in his symbols."  From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#symbolism #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'll be uncomfortable in the way I want to be uncomfortable."  From I Dream of Jeannie, season 3, episode 9.
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#i dream of jeannie #uncomfortable
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Snow White (written and illustrated by various), 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 #umbrella #dog #raining dogs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We weren't wondering about golf in the seventeenth century, either, but here's what it looked like.  From Chatterbox, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #golf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ten mummies, one coffin.  From Hanover College's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#mummy #vintage photo #coffin #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Montana School of Mines yearbook of 1960.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #geometry #crystal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Is that all you are going to do?"  From The Instructor, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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)
From Buena Vista College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bed
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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 #spider #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
Saint Lawrence in Le Charivari, 1880.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #saint lawrence
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Sundials (permalink)
"Count none but sunny hours."  From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1970 yearbook.  We also spotted this drawing of the sundial, from two decades earlier.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cockatoo disguised as a paper bag of fine groceries.  From St. Nicholas, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #cockatoo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camel
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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 #dog #rabbit
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Weg, by Violet Irwin:

 


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #oz
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August 26, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #artist #1930s #caveman #illustration #prehistoric #cave painting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fifteen of the four-and-twenty blackbirds.  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 #vintage ad #blackbird #illustration #pie #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 4.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's no use.  We have to have a special one made."  From The Old Line, 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 #conehead #locker room #helmet
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #insect #carousel #merry-go-round #bug #locust #crying insect
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Human Culture, 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 #phrenology #insanity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Domestic discipline."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #church art
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Old News (permalink)
"Aged woman is called beyond."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#death #vintage headline #headline
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
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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 #dog #stranded at sea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #animal attack #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#mummy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Assumption College's 1969.

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#vintage yearbook #taxidermy #skunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph College's 1992 yearbook.

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

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#beard #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 1931.
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#ghost #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy'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
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Old News (permalink)
"The cook may decide if they'll live here."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
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#elf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vanderbilt University's 1987 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1980s #ripped jeans
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #feather #1790s
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August 25, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A vampire plays Ms. Pac Man in Castlevania: it's our Gothic remix of the classic Midway arcade theme, on Grave Mood Rings.
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#arcade game #video game #vampire #remix #video #grave mood rings #ms. pac man #video arcade
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration #1880s
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Old News (permalink)
"Jailed because he won't stop singing."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#singing #vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I don't understand."  "Neither do we."  From Dark Shadows episode 154.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Simpson College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #1920s
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Lucian's Wonderland by St. J. Basil Wynne Willson and illustrated by A. Payne Garnett, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dream
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The talking cat and the talking mockingbird from The Wishing Tree by Ruth Chew.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State Teachers College's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #math #numbers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #animal attack #1920s #taken by animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Save people."  From Earlham College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #sign #protest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #yarn ball #knitting needle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Feeling under a cloud.  From Montclair's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #cloud #under a cloud
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mercury, 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 #vintage diagram #alchemical #alchemy #diagram #occult diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vanderbilt University's 1987 yearbook.

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

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#mask #guitar #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Romulus Roman, 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fire #eternal flame #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #making faces
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1902.
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#vintage ad #female trouble #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm:
[Just two character names]

Prince Vierfuenfsechs-Siebenachtneun
Grand Duke Salamander Salamandrovitch
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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 #antlers #deer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dwarf #tiny man #1890s #illustration
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August 24, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #illustration
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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 #vintage ad #tea kettle #illustration #burned #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #bee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1956.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #world #earth #small world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "A Demon's Nightmare" by J. T. C. (1972).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Old News (permalink)
From A Most Improper Magick by Stephanie Burgis, 2010.
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#magick #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Never laugh at a Yeti or attempt to photograph it."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1976.
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#yeti #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 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 #temple #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do people shun you?"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #vintage ad #shunning #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #political cartoon #war #noah's ark #raining bullets #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Procopius' 1970 yearbook.

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

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#monk #gun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #mad monk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Little Red Riding-hood, devoured by the wolf.  From The Century, 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 #little red riding hood #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #harpy #heraldry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Westminster Choir College's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Don Gatoza."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Iowa State College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #shoe #1960s #shoeshine
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Old News (permalink)
"Chief occupant ... is ghost."  From The Current Sauce, 1964.
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#ghost #haunted house #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #bamboo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 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 #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #mushroom #costume #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Testament of the lost.  How we went over the abyss?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#abyss #vintage headline
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August 23, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to David Lynch's brilliant series On the Air, in which a character can't remember her mother's first name, which turns out to be Mary.  In the Duluth Herald of 1912, a man forgets his mother's first name, which turns out to be Mary.  His excuse was that he hadn't seen her in several years.
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#memory #david lynch #on the air #forgetting
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to Patronus Records for saying, "Totally diggin' the artistic flair and direction of both the song and the video!! Very stylish & original in the approach."
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #vampire #video #jonathan caws-elwitt #sigfus #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #tollhouse
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From North Texas State Teachers College's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mountain climber #the end #1920s
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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 #tiger #man-eating #eaten alive
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Old News (permalink)
"Machines to replace women."  From The Gateway, 1961.
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#vintage headline #automation #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Westminster Choir College's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #musician #cymbals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And yet, with jaundiced eye I gaze upon all the beauty and wonder about me."  From John Barleycorn by Jack London and illustrated by H. T. Dunn, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #horse
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Old News (permalink)
"You can't miss something you've never had."  From Henderson State University's 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1932 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 #horn
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
From Mercury, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #triangle #diagram #mysticism #rose #occult diagram #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #initiation #spanking #cutout #dissociation #1950s #paddling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The American Educator (vol. 5), 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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#trojan horse #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, July-October 1919:

"a scene that would have provoked a sphinx to laughter"

[Other snippets attached. You may recognize Parker's "we sleep under blankets almost every other night" (my emphases) as a riff on the old postcard cliche "we sleep under blankets every night," whereby city people taking summer vacations in the mountains touted the cool evenings. As you may know, in the pre-air-conditioning era, that was right up there with "wish you were here" (at least if humorists of the time are to be believed).]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #chicken #oz #hen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1909 yearbook.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #cocktail
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Old News (permalink)
"Ice cream soda his ruin."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#ice cream #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #telephone pole #illustration #electrical pole #lineman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #anthropomorphism #chimney sweep #illustration #oil lamp
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August 22, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #puppet #long neck #illustration #hand puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Workbook to Accompany Enchanting Stories by Gertrude Hildreth, 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 #elf #pumpkin #elves #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #one-legged
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown College'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 #rabbit #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Too weak to do anything."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fatigue #illness #exhaustion #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #voodoo #vévé
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Old News (permalink)
"Going round in dull circles."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage headline #spinning #circle #headline
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Rhetorical Answers, Questioned (permalink)
"To be or not to be; that is not the question for Tom."  From Henderson State University's 1975 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An apparition is piloting the ship.  From Sailing Alone Around the World by Capt. Joshua Slocum and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian, 1901.
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#ghost #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #bat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #greece #yearbook #greek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mercury, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #monk #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I may be 'yaller' and covered with fleas, but my pants, thank the lord, don't bag st the knees!"  From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #bee
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #x-ray #butterflies #xray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pluck and Luck Complete Stories of Adventure, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #under the sea #diver #submarine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #reaidng
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Always fun to see an inkblot in a title.  From Verena in the Midst by E. V. Lucas, 1920.
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#inkblot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon College's 1974 yearbook.

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#timepiece #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mickey mouse #1970s #watch
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Old News (permalink)
"The cheesecake.  Where to find a good thing."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage headline #headline #cheesecake
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Our Fourfooted Friends and How We Treat Them, 1904.
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#cat #vintage photo #1900s #kitten #photo
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August 21, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jester Life and His Marionettes by Minna Thomas Antrim, 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 #satyr #goat-legged #pan #pan pipes #goat legged #1900s #musician #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"The whiteness [of an iceberg] moved in the whiteness of the fog."  From Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, 1908.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #boat #fog #iceberg #1900s #illustration #anti-coloring
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.  Answer: regatta.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #word puzzle #yacht
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"And what am I supposed to do, just sit here and get bored waiting for you?" "I couldn't have put it better myself."  From Dark Shadows episode 559.
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#boredom #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shield
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #fish #fishing #fisherman #otter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #levitation #weightless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #golf #vintage men #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ellis Stanyon's Magic, 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 #fox #shadow #rabbit #hands
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"How women let their heads go."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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#vintage headline #losing one's head #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Westminster Choir College's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #conductor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Haunted House Tales by Corinne Denan and illustrated by Ann Toulmin-Rothe.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
"The slang kills me."  From Henderson State University's 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #slang #headline
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Two Sides / Same Coin (permalink)
From Mysteria, 1913.
* Inspired by Jeff Hawkins.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #light and dark #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #ice skating
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #chinese #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Not exactly a Chicago ... but there is plenty of crime in Bombay City!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1922 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 #1920s #navy #illustration #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #living toy #toy
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August 20, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Blue Man by Giuseppe Fanciulli and translated by May M. Sweet, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spider #1920s #illustration #paper doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dog #bird #animal fight #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She put a pair of owl's eyes into her sockets ... and then she went out where a coyote was awaiting her."  From "The Fate of the Witch Wife," in Laughing Horse, 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 #coyote #native american #1920s #illustration #owl's eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Pinocchio by Emily Gray, 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 #anthropomorphism #faces in things #pinocchio #illustration #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #1960s #1970s #video #penetralia #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
From Heading South, Looking North by Ariel Dorfman. 
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#vintage headline #headline #direction
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Old News (permalink)
From Stephen F. Austin State College's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #question mark #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #hunter #bird of paradise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #oz
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Old News (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Prefaces, by Don Marquis (illustrated by Tony Sarg):

[Clearly, the publishers of this book were playing a long game. They took out a display ad to promote it in the June 1919 issue of Vanity Fair, and less than 104 years later I came along, got lured in by the ad, and enjoyed the book for free in an out-of-copyright web archive. In the past I've never warmed up to Marquis, but the idea of a book entirely composed of prefaces to imaginary books seemed worth investigating. (And haven't we encountered *another* book of this nature--some other book of introductions to nonexistent books?) Snippets attached.]

 

 

 

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Procrastination is actually a duke with an overgrown mustache obscuring the time on his clock face.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #procrastination #clock face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A mannequin dressed in newspapers.  From Calvin College's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mannequin #newspaper dress #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"UFOs on two separate nights."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying #illustration #1910s
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#tennis #patron saint #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 #native american #bigfoot #footprint
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #hunter #moose #illustration #snowshoes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #electricity #illustration #iightning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Why, it's the key to the king's garden!  From Busy Folk by Mary E. Laing & Andrew W. Edson and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #key
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August 19, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales For My Children by Charles Kingsley and illustrated by Helen Monro, 1855.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #minotaur #greek #labyrinth #illustration #bull headed #bull man #1850s
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Old News (permalink)
"Hungry wolves arrive."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#wolf #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Down Our Street by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #church #ireland
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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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 #fairy #alcoholism #imagination #gin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's horse-headed football player is from the University of Western Ontario's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #animal-headed #football #horse-headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The trouble with help is that there are several kinds; the kind you want, the kind you need, the kind you think you deserve — too many kinds."  Froim Astounding magazine, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #sphere #charity #hand #help #marble
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #mask #animal mask #antlers #minstrel
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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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Suffering from "yes-not" hunger.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #hunger #bear #dyspeptic #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Poet Cat by Grace Nichols, 2001.
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#cat #paw print
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jousting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #father time
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Taking back the night."  From Tufts University's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Can We Believe In Immortality? by James H. Snowden, 1918.
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#immortality #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #pipe smoker #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #death #saint #shadow #halo #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Readers Primer II, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #bird #illustration #1880s
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August 18, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's funerary griffin is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #griffin #gryphon #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a ventriloquist's doll in a figure of speech."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #ventriloquism #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 #hare #illustration #alpine hare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mad tea party #mad hatter #rabbit #tea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1923.
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#bull #picnic #animal attack #vintage illustration #cow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#fraternity #vintage yearbook #skull and bones #secret society #hooded figure #1950s
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
A false sun at eventide.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #sun #sunset #two suns #false sun #double sun #mock sun #twin suns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"The mouse trap."  From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat #cat in the hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #fraternity #vintage yearbook #secret society
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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 #tiger #pet walker #walking the tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School's 1903 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 #flowers #women #vintage women #flower fashion
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Old News (permalink)
"Accepted, rejected by the same person."  From The Gateway, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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The Right Word (permalink)
A rare word: "phunisms."  From Weber's 1918 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #upside down #1960s #this end up
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.
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#walking dead #living dead #zombie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North-Western College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #laughter #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"The coils tighten."  From the Duluth Herald, 1902.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, 1924:

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the Earl of Wainscoat

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All answers should be plainly typed in invisible ink.

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The best plays are those which have never been written at all. [Alexander Woollcott]

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They are in a New York hurry. Everything fascinates them, because they are so blasé. [Samuel Hoffenstein]

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He's been on a series of wild-goose chases, or wild-geese chase. [Hoffenstein]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In the centre stands a figure clad in crimson."  From The Strand, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #costume party #masquerade #1890s #illustration
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August 17, 2024

Old News (permalink)
"The book they blamed on God."  From The Aberree, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #monk #bible #vintage headline #illustration #headline #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #crying animal #illustration #1880s #fawn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Eskimo Twins, written and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 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 #dog #eskimo #walking the dog #illustration #pet walker
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Old News (permalink)
"Jack Frost likes jam."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#jack frost #vintage headline #headline
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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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#fairy tale #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Perhaps it's time to bring back this alternative to "go to hell": "To Des Moines in a Ford with ya!"  From Buena Vista College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #vintage automobile #des moines
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Old News (permalink)
"Laugh — till you don't cry."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
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#depression #laughter #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ah, night school.  From Gannon's 1978 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night school
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#dragon #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1939 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #skull and bones
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University (Saint Louis)'s 1986 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #faceless #no face #anonymous #protester #1980s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Everybody in [James] Merrill's ouija-board poems is either dead, preoccupied with death, or was never alive in the first place" —Tom Clark, The Poetry Beat
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#ouija
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
How store mannequins get ready for modeling.  From Indiana State University's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#mirror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #mannequin
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Well, spare me the details.  I am only concerned about my own problems."  From Dark Shadows episode 18.
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#dark shadows #personal problems
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Glenn Miller breaks in during Shakespeare."  From Tulane University's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #glenn miller
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Old News (permalink)
Adjusting for inflation, that 30 cents he died for is worth about $10 today.  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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

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

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
MGM's Leo the Lion as a ballerino.  From The Film Daily, 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 #anthropomorphism #dancing #lion #ballet #ballerino
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August 16, 2024

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1927 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 #1920s #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"It never rains on Fridays."  From The Children's Newspaper1960.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#rain #weather #vintage headline #headline #friday
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Revealed: how to use occult TV and radio for wish fulfillment, on Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
153
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#occult #video #penetralia #prod. oddfellow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fox #rooster #illustration #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bucking bronco #bronco
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Old News (permalink)
Cheerless, lonely old bachelors moping in leather chairs made headline news in the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#bachelor #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 121.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #long neck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1930 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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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Change one letter per row.  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#word game
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to transform the sea-horse into a sea-lion.
From Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures In Art with Special Reference To Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb, 1906.

From Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures In Art with Special Reference To Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb, 1906
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#seahorse #gif #heraldry
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, January-June 1919:

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Ned was a young man of great possibilities, but few probabilities. [Benchley]

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The puffin...is easily distinguishable from the more effete robin of America because the two birds are similar in no essential points. [Benchley]
***

[Notes on some of the attachments]

1. Re. "Ask your grocer about 'Emancipators'..." I believe there's a similar gag in a Steve Allen radio transcript, from a few decades later. I suppose Steve may have subconsciously plagiarized Benchley (this piece was anthologized), or it may just have been a case of Great (Meeting of) Minds.

2. "Common Faults in Bidding at Auction": This is just an instance where an unrelated photo placed in proximity to a headline created a funny symbiosis in my mind.

3. "Negation": This is apparently a real "futurist" play, not a spoof.

4. Onyx: This is just sort of bizarrely wonderful, imo. I've dug up a better-printed example as well (from a decade earlier--the ad evidently had a long shelf life!).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #animals #goat #tiger #illustration #teacup
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greenbrier Military School's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stage Costuming by Agnes Brooks Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1600s #illustration
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August 15, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our indie web series Grave Mood Rings was reviewed by MovieSludge:
"Quite intriguing and bizarre ... like something you'd see on a late night public access show or in a forgotten corner of an old Adult Swim timeslot. Each episode consists of a snippet of a tv show broadcast that gets interrupted to air a slow old Dark Shadows-like Victorian horror serial (which, more often than not consists of two characters having a strange and/or funny conversation fit for a 3 panel comic strip). The humor is quick, evoking a mix of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Monty Python, Arrested Development, and Firesign Theater. I highly recommend checking this out if you get a chance. (I particularly like the use of sound effects)." —MovieSludge
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #village #illustration #prehistoric
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Modern English Writing by Douglas Bement, 1937.
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#sentence diagram #life and death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Richer Ways of Living by Wilson, Wilson & Erb, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #sculptor #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elements of Interior Decoration by Augustus Sherrill Whiton, 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 #illustration #furniture
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Today's cat nursing orphaned skunks is from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1946.
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#cat #skunk #animal friends
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Virgil's Aeneid.
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#vintage book #book #labyrinth #maze #virgil
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Old News (permalink)
We're taught not to talk with our mouths full, yet "Every sandwich tells a story."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.
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#vintage headline #sandwich #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Adelphi's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #spider web
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Old News (permalink)
"Spirits talk to research scientist."  From Chimes, 1958.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
There's a fine line between the real and the ideal.  From Swarthmore's 1894 yearbook.
A printed collection of A Fine Line Between... is now available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #food #dining
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kerygma and Myth by Rudolf Bultmann, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #good and evil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State University's 1983 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 the [Thornton] Courier, 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 #vampire #dracula
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Great Falls's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #faceless #paper bag head
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Magnetic healing.  From Human Magnetism, or, How to Hypnotise by James Coates, 1904.
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#vintage photo #vintage men #men #magnetic healing #human magnetism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 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 #goat #broken mirror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wabash College's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #ex libris #illustration #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #queen #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School (Farmville)'s 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #prophecy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Springtime all the year."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1956.
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#spring #vintage headline #headline
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August 14, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If MTV would show videos like this, they would still be a cultural force." —Taskboy, re: Grave Mood Rings' "The Ghost Rejoins the Living"
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#vampire #grave mood rings
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#maze #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement of Reading by Arthur Gates, 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 #cow #1930s #illustration #pet walker #walking the cow
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"What's with the weather?"  From Starting Points in Reading Revised, B by Patricia Chesterman, 1982.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #weather #cabin #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.
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#vintage ad #pain #1960s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore 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 #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #bird man
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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 #ax
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #big mouth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Old News (permalink)
"Read books even during August."  From The Duluth Herald, 1915.
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#reading #vintage headline #headline #august
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horse #sea #cliff
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Go on!"  From Chowan University's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Watch your p's and r's."  From The Gateway, 1969.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This photo may be used to facilitate astral or time travel.  From Elon College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #perspective #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's wounded football is from St. Nicholas, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #football
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois' 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #swimming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 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 #horse
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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 #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #farmer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Expressways, Grade 3, Level 6, Handstands by Thorn & Irwin, 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 #wind #rooftop #clock tower #illustration #steeple
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August 13, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dove #1920s #pinocchio #illustration #living toy
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #unboxing
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Old News (permalink)
"A hunted thing finds peace."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#vintage headline #headline #hunted
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #1970s #illustration #groundhog
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Old News (permalink)
"Relax for health and beauty."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1946.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Then called he called the baronage together to wit what was the best counsel."  From Washburn'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 #king arthur #round table #le morte d'arthur #thomas malory
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Old News (permalink)
"What is God trying to teach me now?"  From The Instructor, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #graveyard #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#black cat #vintage art #doctor nikola #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Buena Vista College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #elephany #pachyderm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College'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 #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psychic Observer and Chimes, 1975.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #life after death #soul #afterlife #astral body #out of body #spirit body
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you a skinny, run-down 'θ'?"  From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ice #crystal #hail #hailstone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Utah Agricultural College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #microscope #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fever #germ
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Old News (permalink)
John Armstrong Chaloner (born Chanler) called his form of automatic writing "the X-faculty."  From The Duluth Herald, 1901.  See The Pencil Witch.
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#automatic writing #vintage headline #headline
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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 #priestess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #greek #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From How You Can Write Plays, by Mark Swan:
[Two snippets attached. I want to protest that "enter Polly" *can* read as a funny line--and I don't even mean in the sense of a double entendre. I just think it sounds pleasantly silly, if I approach it in the right spirit.]


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#farce
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Worshipping the cow."  From Chatterbox, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #cow #hinduism
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August 12, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored to have illustrated federal judge Gary Brown's Inventive Magician's Handbook.
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#magician #magic
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1964.  Answer: No news is good news.
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#proverb #word puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A medicine mask of a Singhalese devil dancer.  From Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 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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#mask #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline #pet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage diagram #diagram
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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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #spinning #spinning top
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown University School of Medicine's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blood #ad
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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 #demon #fairy tale #bow and arrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College'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 #exclusion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Character Builder, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1900s #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A teacher spraying the bug powder of knowledge at someone being swallowed by a whale as well as a masked gun- and knife-wielder.  From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"I carried a witch on my back!"  From Mystic Magazine, 1954.  
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#witch #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 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 #cat #chicken
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #cat #geisha
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #ex libris #book plate
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"It is unlawful, in Iowa, for any person to keep a horse in the rooms of an apartment house."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse #radio #law #pet #apartment life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Find me and I'm yours; cage me and I cry out; love me and we share together."  From East Tennessee State University's 1974 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't spend your money foolishly."  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 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 #money #advice
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August 11, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #1890s #illustration #stool #trick furniture
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Old News (permalink)
"Magic spectacles free inside."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931,
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #biblical #illustration #cain and abel
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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 #fruit #vegetable
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Old News (permalink)
The inventor of shredded wheat believed that all of society's problems sprang from pie-eating.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
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#vintage headline #pie #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #race
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #surprise
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1970 Ole Miss yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook #smiling animal #1970s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Minute Stories by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Josephine H. Bruce, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"They merge, shadowy forms that elude us, frustrate us, worry us, tire us."  From Palm Beach's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 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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#goat #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Fake news: "Clairvoyance is for everyone."  From Chimes, 1961.
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#vintage headline #clairvoyance #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Human Culture, 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 #phrenology #physiognomy #eyes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Westminster Choir College's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#piano #vintage yearbook #mouse #musical animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #initiation #secret society #blindfolded #hooded figure
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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 #animal mask #duel #1780s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State Normal School's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #dog #nursery rhyme #laughing animal #laughing dog
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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 #hunter #stag #deer #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Ainslee's, Jan. 1921:

[As you may know, Ainslee's was Dorothy's post-Vanity Fair drama-critic gig.]


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #animal attack #under the sea #lobster #diver #submarine
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August 10, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #pig #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #native american #1920s #deer #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Rainbows while you wait."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#rainbow #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The first temptation."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #temptation #1890s #vintage men #illustration #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mayan
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Old News (permalink)
"What dust does for us."  From Outdoors, Indoors, and Up the Chimney by Charles McIlvaine, 1906.
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#dust #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Mediumship is contagious."  From Chimes, 1961.
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#spirit medium #mediumship #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 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 #whale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin 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 #night #1920s #vintage automobile #movie theatre #automobile
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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 #chocolate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #doll #living toy #toy
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #word chain #lamb #word puzzle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #telescope #in the clouds
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There's nobody here and we shouldn't be here either."  Today's moment of existential angst is from Dark Shadows.  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seifeld to be the first show about nothing. 
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#existentialism #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Veterinary Medicine's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #centaur #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Finding a diamond in a little fish.  From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fishing #diamond
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hands #medicine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #escape #pig
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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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook #torch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #insects #bugs
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August 9, 2024

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#balancing act #vintage photo #1920s #ice skating #vintage man #man #ice skates #photo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
2237
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#doughnut #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #stagecoach #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1964.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #reading #book #elizabethan era
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Materialism cannot deny these proofs."  From Psychic Observer and Chimes, 1975.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ghost #spirit photography
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"He had large gauze wings on his shoulders."  From Billtry by Mary Kyle Dallas, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #angel #man with wings
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1906 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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Old News (permalink)
"The penny that blots out the sun."  From The Aberree, 1959.
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#sun #penny #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An underwater UFO, from Flying Saucer Digest, no. 13.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #underwater
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, 1918:
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #maze baseball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 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 #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #penny-farthing #cycling #illustration #penny farthing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Chemistry of Carbon by P. N. Calcraft, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #chemistry #illustration #molecule
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mitchell Community College's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook #circle of time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Let's not underestimate Boo Boo Kity.  From the Phantasie handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #discus
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
We, too, are partial to hooey.  From Toike Oike, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #books #nonsense #hooey
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August 8, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that a fan programmed Neons Gone Mad into the video game Rising Star 2.
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#neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #bear #1930s #illustration #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brownie and His Friends by Gates & Karabin, 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 #gnome #elf #snail #brownie #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"A cat's one-way traffic.  Tree-top troubles.  A little mystery of claws and climbing.  Why puss does not come down."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#cat #vintage headline #up a tree #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1957 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A treasure map from Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales by Charles B. Cory, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #map #gold #1890s #treasure map
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Old News (permalink)
"Forty years is a long time."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
Shifting time by manipulating a sun dial.  From Franklin College's 1954 yearbook.
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#sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"My tussle with a poltergeist."  From Chimes, 1961.
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#ghost #vintage headline #poltergeist #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1930s
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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 #dog #bow and arrow #beast #apple
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia Teachers College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#mummy #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Feather dusters perform the ghost dance.  From St. Nicholas, 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 #anthropomorphism #dancing #feather duster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ripon College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The monkey tree."  From Chatterbox, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tree #faces in things #monkey tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1925 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 Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #butterfly #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Broome Technical Community College's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #jewelry #vintage man #earrings
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly at City Hall in Cookeville, Tennessee.  "There is a time and place for everything, but when the time is wrong for the place, or the place is wrong for the time, we must be patient until the two coincide" (attributed to Mary Kay Corvo).
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#temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Panzer College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Punch’s Prehistoric Peeps by E. T. Reed, 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 #dinosaur #cricket #caveman #stonehenge #prehistoric
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August 7, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Water buffalo.  From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #buffalo #china #1920s #farmer #illustration #water buffalo #ride
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #squirrel #1930s #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"An ambitious pineapple.  Anxious to make a stir in the world by being odd."  From The Wasp, 1902.
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#vintage photo #1900s #pineapple #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #window
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wizard #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #high priest #sorority
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together magazine, 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 #death #horse
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1933 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #solar deity #chariot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sun god #Apollo
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Old News (permalink)
It was a better time: "Tourists get their cash back."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage headline #tourism #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill College's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #mascot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story Book of Nick and Dick by Arthur Gates.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men #shaving #scuba
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Old News (permalink)
"A drink with a stranger."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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#1960s #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #hat #vintage woman #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"A note about the earth.  The earth is the preserve of day and night."  From the Innis Herald, 1995.
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#earth #night and day #vintage headline #day and night #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A bodiless mannequin is frightened by a headless mannequin.  From Indiana State University's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#severed head #vintage yearbook #mannequin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egypt
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Holding the cat at arm's length."  From Punch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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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.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bull #cowboy #lasso
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1880.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery
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August 6, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited in "Charms, Talisman and Amulets in Contemporary African Christianity" by Edward Agboada, in The American Journal of Biblical Theology.
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#magic words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask #dancing #native american #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From She, The Woman-Man by Aleta B. Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1935. At Archive dot org.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #astrology #zodiac #esoteric #symbolism #1930s #illustration #occult diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dolphin #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#hypnotism #video #penetralia #mirror ball #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #cat #sleeping #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #twins #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Each one of the three made dolls."  From Little Ugly Face by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 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 #native american #illustration #living toy
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Old News (permalink)
"Mosquitoes almost master a ship."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#mosquito #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1940s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1955.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crystal ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #upside down #headstand #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose Secrets as told by the story gnome to Barbara Webb Bourjaily and illustrated by Joe King, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #goose
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Old News (permalink)
"Bear played with the boy and then viciously attacked him."  From The Duluth Herald, 1901.
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#animal attack #bear #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A&M's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #1920s #cross dressing
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1943.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Now we can go to the snack bar and start all over again!"  From Goucher College's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #weight loss #vintage women #dieting #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #pumpkinhead #oz
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

[I'd thought I'd been through all the Thurber I was going to go through, but this posthumous collection of the uncollected stopped me on the street (that is, it was on a sidewalk shelf of free books outside a local book shop).]

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[In the preface, the editor does the math.]
By plotting the points that he makes in reference to others (x = here, a genuine concern; y = there, a round or unreserved applause, or a dismissive swipe, or a raised eyebrow), a figure of Thurber's own accomplishment can be traced.

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My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me.
***

[More snippets attached. Note that the Rhetorical Question Answered segues nicely into one of those "Borgesian, Jamesian..."-style rosters; and the actual Jamesian snippets culminate in some flapping.]
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Old News (permalink)
"Magic eye beams on peace."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1946.
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#vintage headline
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August 5, 2024

Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From An Introduction to Art Education by William Whitford, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #art appreciation #art #test
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic Seasons Toolkit by Allinson & McInnes, 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 #pumpkin #1970s #illustration #vegetable people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mock turtle #gryphon #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I do not wish."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hand #1920s #illustration #hand gesture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National Kindergarten and Elementary College's 1924 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
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Old News (permalink)
"Obey your hunches."  A headline from Chimes, 1958 and a still from the classic Young Frankenstein.
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#vintage headline #headline #hunch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #cat
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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 #severed head #floating head #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A lack of "marriage hygiene."  From Movie Classic, 1934.
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#vintage ad #1930s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University'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 #in the corner #cornered
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Old News (permalink)
From Dreamers With Power, The Menominee by George and Louise Spindler, 1984. 
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#vintage headline #headline #in between #limbo #liminal zone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ozark Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1878.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arizona's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #dance of death #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #skeleton costume
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you have all your snow in the summer?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#snow #weather #vintage headline #summer #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"An army of worms."  From The Duluth Herald, 1901.
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#worm #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faun #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #dog #doll
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August 4, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Modern Science in Our Environment by Dull & Mann, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #volcano #1940s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Apples are the toast."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #toast #apple #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Gnu versus wolf: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 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 #wolf #animal fight #illustration #gnu
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Old News (permalink)
"Suburban chess."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage headline #chess #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #pig #three little pigs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat #vintage magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #pottery #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #blackbird #bird #rook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This pledge was blindfolded, taken to a desolate church in the country, seated before a Bible, and then abandonded to find his own way home.  From Wake Forest's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #blindfolded #hazing #1940s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1969.
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#cat #1960s #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lawrence University's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #fish #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 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 #ufo #orbs #strange lights
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian Junior College'a 1933 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 #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic Magazine, 1954.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #wizard #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Davenport College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #radiator
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Old News (permalink)
"Day given up to drug."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#drugs #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The World of Wonders, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #shadow #brocken spectre
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 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 #fairy tale
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Confidante," by Henry Harland:

"You must come and see me. I'm at home on Mondays."
"Oh, thank you; I'll come the very first Monday that ever is."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hot air balloon #1890s #illustration
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August 3, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lady fuchsias.  From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 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 #flower people #1920s #illustration #fuchsia
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The Right Word (permalink)
It's taboo to say you're "crazy about" a "swell" "guy."  From Junior English Activities 2 by Hatfield, Lewis, Thomas & Woody, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #slang #illustration #language #taboo
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Old News (permalink)
"A donut with no hole is a danish."  From The Omen, 1997.
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#doughnut #donut #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fishing #fisherman #illustration #aztec #poem #1880s #ocelot
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #eyeglasses #monocle #pince-nez #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #native american #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"It all started back in the Garden of Eden."  From Gannon College's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #garden of eden #biblical #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"You, you, and I, especially I, are crazy."  From The Aberree, 1959.
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#vintage headline #crazy #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We tend to forget how much smaller today's cameras are.  From Western Carolina's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic World, 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 #ghost
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Old News (permalink)
"No time to stand and stare."  From Piedmont College's 1984 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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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 #vintage book #book #pig
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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 #fruit tree #cherry tree #up a tree #fruit
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Old News (permalink)
"Shirley MacLaine: Lemonade and fried mice."  From Modern Screen, 1960.
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#1960s #vintage headline #headline #shirley maclaine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #railroad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #construction
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The campaign to stamp out 8 o'clock never did succeed, and that's why we're still plagued by it.  From The Improvement Era, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #8 o'clock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1911 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #butterfly woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories From the Faerie Queen by Mary Macleod and illustrated by A. G. Walker, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #magician #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny woman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A hundred hurry to catch up where one hurries to get ahead."  From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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#advice
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August 2, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Language Skills B by Moore & Kleitsch, 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 #dragon #knight #robot #1970s #illustration #robot dragon #wind-up
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #ship #fashion #vintage fashion #wig #france #french #headdress #illustration #hat
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Old News (permalink)
"The invisible cloak.  A new sort of window."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage headline #invisibility #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 #end of the world #apocalypse #biblical #trumpet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 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 #bull #cowboy #rodeo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1968.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#egypt #vintage illustration
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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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#vintage illustration #moon #vintage diagram #diagram #lunar halo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Old News (permalink)
"Escape this life alive."  From The Aberree, 1959.
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#life after death #afterlife #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft and Sorcery, 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan University's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #vintage women #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any flecks you encounter prove to be insignificant.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #imp #yokai
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1931 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bridge #venice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tour of Doctor Syntax In Search of the Picturesque, illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1866.
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#vintage illustration #horse #why the long face
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

The latest from Vanity Fair:

["Of all the arts!" is the heading for an ad about pearls (which are said here to be the most whatever of all the arts of adornment)...but I prefer to hear "of all the arts!" as a mild oath. "Well, of all the arts, look who's coming up the walkway just when we're sitting down to supper!"]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #flower
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Old News (permalink)
"Do something big."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.
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#vintage headline #advice
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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)
"Peek-a-boos barred."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
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#vintage headline #headline #peek-a-boo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goat #illustration
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August 1, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's crow tormenting an owl.  From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 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 #owl #crow #1920s #animal fight #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#humor #spoof #satire #bigfoot #sasquatch #1970s #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fields and Fencerows by Porter & Hansen and illustrated by Hugh Spencer & Ottilie Foy, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #night #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"A millionaire for a minute.  Seeing what it was like.  A little man has a good time."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#money #vintage headline #headline #millionaire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #map #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Lemonade stands up."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
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#vintage headline #lemonade #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to help her fall more deeply asleep.
From the State University of New York College at Oneonta's 1968 yearbook.

From the State University of New York College at Oneonta's 1968 yearbook
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#sleep #vintage yearbook #yearbook #animated gif
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cheerful Day by Nan Fairbrother, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #play
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales by Charles B. Cory, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #castle #native american #cliff dwellers
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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 #ghost #spiritualism #seance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster #human headed
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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.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The peanut camel.  From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #camel #peanut
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1908 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #caveman #horned man
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Old News (permalink)
"You don't have to enjoy your children all the time!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline #parenting #childrearing
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell, 1911.
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#occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1911 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 #tiny man #burned alive
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Old News (permalink)
"Clean hands make a happy life."  From Ability, 1961.
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#vintage headline #cleanliness #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1950 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1950s #pushups
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and illustrated by George H. Boughton, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #rip van winkle
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