CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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August 31, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, illustrated by Edwin John Prittie, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Live oak leaves and acorns.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #anteater
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Old News (permalink)
"For a blonde to go brunette is risky."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage headline #blonde
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #cat #scales #kitten #weight scale
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Unicorns (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1916 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Sidney H. Meteyard, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #doughnut #donut #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Pedagogues do not care how they look."  From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1875.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina Teacher's College's 1928 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rosicrucian Digest, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mentalism #mind #gears #mind power #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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Old News (permalink)
"The planet that disappeared."  From Fate Magazine, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death in Harley Street, by John Rhode:

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"Dr. Knapp might have attended her as Mrs. Somebody Else."

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"Knapp had had a patient, Mrs. Something or Other, who at the time had been Mrs. Gunton."
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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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August 30, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1959.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #on fire #airplane #vintage headline #illustration #headline #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"Sometimes a vacation gives us adventure."  From Youth's Companion, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #vintage headline #illustration #vacation #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 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 #knife #illustration #carving #1910s
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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 #cat #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Magnificent Milo, written and illustrated by Joan Balfour Payne (1958).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #centaur #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Can we conquer fire?  Man who walked through flames."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#fire #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch's Almanac for 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 #dancing #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1892 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #vegetable people #pea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #falling #chimney sweep #rooftop #chimnet
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Old News (permalink)
"Two meet death while on their way to purchase a coffin."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  
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#coffin #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spinning wheel #illustration
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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 #anthropomorphism #dog #nursery rhyme
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we thought he had wings.  From Ohio State University's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #all wet #vintage man #1950s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #charity #giantess #jester #meaning of life #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #dragon #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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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 #cat #oz #ex libris
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meat grinder #student #grinder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #monkey #wedding
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Australian Women's Weekly, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #glove #1950s #ad
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Old News (permalink)
From Do You Hear What You're Thinking? by Jerry Schmidt, 1983.
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#hearing #vintage headline #headline
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August 29, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Messages from the Hollow Earth by Dianne Robbins, 2003.
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#strange days
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #die feen #neoprometheism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #flower people #faces in things #1920s #flowers #sunflower #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #cat #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #bull #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 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 #ghost
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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 #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #blindfolded
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We work ... for the night is coming."  From Syracuse University's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #handwriting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook #chemistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magician #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Punch's Almanac for 1922.  (Hat tip: Jonathan.)
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#parrot #limerick #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Breath of the Dragon by Abigail Hetzel Fitch, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #barber #shaving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1957 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cave painting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ten Steps to Self-Fulfillment, Step Five by Robert Chaney amd illustrated by Teodors Liliensteins, 1967.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Ring for Nancy: A Sheer Comedy*, by Ford Madox Hueffer**

[*aka The Panel: A Sheer Comedy]
[**aka Ford Madox Ford]

[This is a strange book. At its best moments, it's not unlike the Lucia/Mapp novels, but much of it is rather a sordid, and at times tedious, soap opera. The best scene (see link below) I recommend in full; and, speaking as a writer, I suspect that scene might have originated as a freestanding story or humor piece that got wedged in here.]

***
"Oh, my aunt!" [...] "Oh, my uncle!"
[It turns out these oaths are at least partially allusive to an actual aunt and uncle.]

***
"No, I was born in Peckham," the manager answered,--"silly Peckham."
[I'm not sure why Peckham is or was silly, but I'll take it. Fwiw, Wikipedia does note that "the late 19th century also saw the arrival of George Batty, a manufacturer of condiments."]
***

[Okay, now for the "big scene," which follows up a railway-station incident early in the book and relates to the attached Henry James business (thus raising a chicken-and-egg question regarding the inclusion of that, as well as this, in the book to begin with). The link should take you to Part III, chap. IV:]
https://archive.org/details/ringfornancyshee00fordrich/page/278/mode/1up?view=theater

[Many snippets attached. Note: While I wouldn't put it past the showbiz folks, then or now, to turn the short story "Pigs Is Pigs" into a full-blown musical comedy, I find no evidence that this actually happened--so Ford is pulling our leg with that, and the songs can be filed under Nonexistent Songs from Nonexistent Musicals Based on Actual Literature.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fish #1900s #illustration
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August 28, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magonia, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #question mark #illustration #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #1930s #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #map #1920s #italy #puppet #marionette #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Adams State College's 1984 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lighthouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mister Fox (R. Shugg & Co.), c. 1875.
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#vintage illustration #moon #fox
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Old News (permalink)
"Forced to sin.  Chorus girls say they cannot be moral and succeed."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  
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#sin #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #say it with flowers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #automaton #robot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage ad #mirror #weight loss #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ashland College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #marx brothers #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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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 #palm reading #palmistry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bay Path College's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Invisible Reality Behind Appearances by Riley & Judy Crabb, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #aura #esoteric #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #electricity #illustration #electric eel
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Old News (permalink)
"Hiding-places.  Who would have thought of them?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage headline #headline
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The Right Word (permalink)
"What's a gafiffit?"  From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #spoof ad #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #grasshopper #1940s #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1920s #audience #illustration
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August 27, 2025

The Right Word (permalink)
Ordering seconds before you begin is, to use a French word, gauche.  From Atari in Wonderland by Fred D'Ignazio, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #gluttony #chef #illustration #1980s #french toast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From People and Places by Horn, McBroom & Bishop and illustrated by Sperry, Stein & Paus, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #toad #caterpillar #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #modern art #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Liberator Weekly, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #church #cathedral #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ameliaranne and the Green Umbrella by Constance Heward and illustrated by Susan Beatrice Pearse, 1920. 
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#vintage illustration #crying #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #clown #costume #clones
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #irregular
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From India, A Country Study, edited by Heitzman and Worden, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #india #snowflake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University School of Medicine's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #whale #spouting off
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A church eaten by dogs."  From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #dog #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The dog that was upside down."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #upside down
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #asleep #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #cat #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #electricity
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Old News (permalink)
"So tortoises do have winning ways."  From Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#turtle #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #hatching #egg
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Twied-twongue."  From The [Armstrong] Inkwell, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #necktie #tongue-tied
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tarot #king of swords
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You know how it is with the lightning."  From Dark Shadows episode 289.
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#lightning #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #train #vintage yearbook #musician
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#ghost #spirit photography
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August 26, 2025

This May Surprise You (permalink)
You've heard that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, and it also takes more lines of computer code.  From Atari in Wonderland by Fred D'Ignazio, 1983.
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#computer #happy and sad #smile and frown #making faces #1980s #programming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wanderfolk in Wonderland by Edith Guerrier and illustrated by Edith Brown, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #owl #porcupine #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is how we learned math, too, and now look at us.  From El Dia, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #math #numbers #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's firefly riding a snail.  From Wee Wisdom, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration #firefly #lightning bug #animal friends #snail'
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The werewolf Vicar Vitchmik'howl hosts a most unusual cooking program about party foods that are worse than they sound.
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#wolfman #werewolf #WTF #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #through the looking glass #anthropomorphism #oyster #1890s #illustration #walrus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Castle in the air and roving restaurant."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1952.
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#chef #vintage headline #castle in the air #headline #1950s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
All roads lead to Chicago.  From Junior Scholastic, Jan. 14, 1939.
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#chicago
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The route taken by a ghost.  From Fate Magazine, no. 52.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #floorplan
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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
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Old News (permalink)
"A demand for pie brought death to boarder at hands of waiter."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  
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#vintage headline #pie #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State College's 1961 yearbook.

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#snowman #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #1960s #snow bunny #snow rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #cat #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #headless #zombie #decapitated #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #lion #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mad hatter #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Please bring back the attic."  From Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of the Holy Cross's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #dandy #monocle #gloves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A flying machine prophesied in 1880.  From Karmenia, or, What the Spirit Told Me by Lyman E. Stowe, 1918.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Anthony Absolute, by Samuel Merwin:

[I didn't stay long with this novel, but I did appreciate getting a What' s-His-Name in the very first sentence.]
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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 #illustration #up a tree
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August 25, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From El Dia, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #horror #insect #fly #illustration #tormented #giant fly #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #locomotive #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Carrier pigeon.  From St. Nicholas, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #snake #hybrid #human headed #illustration #weasel
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Old News (permalink)
"Out-of-way and out-of-book places."  From Franklin College's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As wearers of genuine mop wigs, we confirm the authenticity of this photo.  From Montana State University's 1957 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing #vintage men #men #1950s #mop wig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #lighthouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Unworthy to unloose."  From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #halo #jesus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Dartmouth College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #illustration #nursery rhyme
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado State College's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #cross dressing #mop wig
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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 #witch #witchcraft #broomstick #constellation #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State University's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #buffalo #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jolly Family by Nikol Nosov and illustrated by V. Y. Konovalov, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #cat #fishbowl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Toodles the cat and her family of chickens.  From The Duluth Herald, 1915.
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#cat #chicken #animal friends
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1951 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #processional
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #staring into the depths
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This Raggedy Ann constellation is from Bay Path College's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #constellation #vintage yearbook #raggedy ann
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's "baby Jesus touching a candle flame" is from The Nautilus, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #candle #jesus #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wheel of fortune
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Old News (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, no. 73.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #headline #flying saucer
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August 24, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Great advice: "Ask the tree to tell you about itself."  From Wee Wisdom, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #tree #faces in things #1920s #tree people #illustration
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Unicorns (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #processional #illustration #1490s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #soot #1940s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The mystic power of trees.  A living tree is more soothing than aspirin or tranquilizers—and trees are free!"  From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #esoteric #tree #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photo-Era Magazine, 1905.
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#vintage photo #1900s #bust #woman #vintage woman #head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #dummy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This year's candle is close to sputtering, last year's candle is smoking, and the year before's candle is out.  From James Millikin University's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #elephant #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #marotte #weight of the world #h. g. wells #why the earth wobbles
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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 #falling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ashland College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #snail #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #giant snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Australian Women's Weekly, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage magazine #1940s #hat #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #archer #viking
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Old News (permalink)
"Men beginning to get uneasy."  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This recalls the Wizard of Oz's palace -- "Ring the bell and enter.  Please don't venture past the curtains."  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #oz #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psychic Science, 1927.
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#spirit photography #ghost
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Old News (permalink)
"To everyone we turn a different face of the prism.  (Lawrence Durrell)."  From Wheaton College's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #crossword puzzle
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Madcap, by George Gibbs:

Her eye lighted gayly as though in challenge at nothing at all.
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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 #eagle #1900s #animal fight #illustration
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August 23, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #tiger #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fish #fisherman #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #spiritualism #seance #illustration #table tapping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #goat #troll #bridge #1930s #illustration #three billygoats gruff
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Old News (permalink)
"Snake meets its doom.  The frog it could not let go."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#snake #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1987 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #zombie
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the classic "I don't want to be a witch!" illustrations.  From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #queen #broom #oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #nursery rhyme #animal friends
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1891 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ladies from Hell by Robert Douglas Pinkerton, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #warrior
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado State College's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hula hoop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pussy Meow: The Autobiography of a Cat by S. Louise Patteson.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hunter #footprint #animal tracks #detective
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Will you be my — how do you say? — vixen for this dance?"  From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #party
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Juniata College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #vintage yearbook #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vanity Fair, 1915.  (Hat tip: Jonathan.)
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#vintage illustration #drawing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Dentistry's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #dummy #mannequin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hold out the planet and welcome visitors."  From Awareness, 1992.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #earth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Trinity University's 1956 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #tiger #dancing animal #jukebox
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I saw this devil right in front of me.  I also saw a sort of large bug, like an ant, down near my feet.  And I saw a little man about two feet high, with a hat, behind my left shoulder."  From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#devil #occult #hallucination
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Old News (permalink)
"Why the public does not act to defend itself from ruin."  From Reality Magazine, 1938.
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#vintage headline #headline
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August 22, 2025

No News Is Good News (permalink)
From Voice of Astara, 1977. 
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#vintage illustration #1970s #no news is good news #illustration #no news
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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 #japanese #crystal ball #japan #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #lion #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Horror host Dr. Sarcofiguy plans to visit the vampiric Vitchmik Hall, but a bizarre list of demands precedes him.
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #dr. sarcofiguy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fish #1900s #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#maze #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#religion #vintage illustration #christianity #roman #1930s #rome #illustration #paul
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's pig baking a cake out of order.  From We Can Read Surprises by Gerrard & McInnes, 1965.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #crow #cricket #1920s #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Leave 'em breathless!"  From The Film Daily, 1936.
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#vintage ad #1930s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caesura, vol. 30, no. 1.
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#faces in things #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Why do they go."  From The Duluth Herald, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #tickling #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #beard
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Old News (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1970 yearbook.
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#it #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When a bag of flour knocks one into a basket of cheeses.  From Chatterbox, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #cheese #illustration #flour
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This look is taking a long time to come back.  From the University of Western Ontario's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #long hair #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
From Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Lady Laughter, by Ralph Henry Barbour:

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Some day I shall write an essay on the "Affinity between Man and the Fireplace."

***
"If you don't like the slang, Richard, I'll try to cut it out--I mean not use it."

***
"Cousin Richard!"
Richard's pen paused on the upper stroke of the "o."
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Old News (permalink)
"20 million maniacs."  From Fate Magazine, 1948.
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#1940s #vintage headline #maniac #headline
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August 21, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #bell #1920s #sheep #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lewis Story Method of Teaching Reading and Spelling Manual, illustrated by Bess Bruce Cleaveland, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage book #book #illustration #1910s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Our Dumb Animals, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1930s #illustration #word puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The feeling that she was not alone took possession of her."  From The Whisper On the Stair by Lyon Mearson, 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 #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The antipodes in derision," from Cosmas' Topography (c. 550).
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#vintage illustration #map #flat earth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
A poor scan, but you probably don't want to play it anyway.  From Australian Womens' Weekly, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #dice #Beatles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caesura, vol. 27, no. 1.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #interior decorating
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Free to be yourself."  From Fisher Junior College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville's 1925 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 #illustration #curtains
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horse and buggy #horse carriage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Karmenia, or, What the Spirit Told Me by Lyman E. Stowe, 1918.
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#spirit guide #ghost #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"My friend, must you go?  For I have so enjoyed our reminiscing, and even more to hear your plans."  From Rend Lake College's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phrenological Journal, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #drawing #making faces
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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 #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The spirit in the bottle."  From Fate Magazine, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #genie #bottle imp #vintage headline #bottle #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Riding a stalk of corn like a broomstick.  From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #corn #nebraska #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Nearly 500,000 years lost."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#vintage headline #headline
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August 20, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mystic Mantrum Om Mani Padme Hum by Robert Galen Chaney, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #meditation #mystic #chakra #1960s #illustration #lotus #mantra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 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 #flowers #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #medieval #king #thirteenth century #queen #wedding #marriage #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Caterpillar eggs on a cherry branch.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 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 #caterpillar #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An alteration from The Preparatory Book to Accompany Off We Go by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #centaur #illustration #man horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ten Steps to Self-Fulfillment, Step Ten by Robert Chaney amd illustrated by Teodors Liliensteins, 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 #esoteric #guru #eeg #brainwaves
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State University's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blindfolded #dizzy #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Abeniki Caldwell by Carolyn Wells, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #shark
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Old News (permalink)
From DePauw University's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #slavery
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #monster #fairy tale #cave
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgia Southern College's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#mask #coffin #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#demon #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wilmerding Life, 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 #hybrid #human headed #man dog #dog man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #gnome
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The personality changing machine is on.  From Lakehead Teachers' College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #wheelchair #ninety #old man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon College's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #man
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #telescope #spyglass #1870s #staring into the depths
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Pardon me, but I may hit you."  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 #boxing #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boxer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #bear #teddy bear
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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.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #thistle #1910s
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August 19, 2025

Old News (permalink)
"Earthquake lost, strayed or stolen.  Supposed to have jumped the track and to be rambling in space, for Prussian seismograph records it at 14,000 miles away and there's no such place on earth."  From St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1906.
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#earthquake #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cow #1940s #illustration #cowgirl
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #illustration #living toy #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Where Our Ways of Living Come From by Howard Wilson, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #camel #1940s #desert #illustration #caravan
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Old News (permalink)
"When your emotional headlights are on.  Cathartic method of half sleep as cure for bottled emotions."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#vintage headline #hypnosis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ghost #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'asino, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #vintage magazine #magazine
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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 #fish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Macdonald College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #joan of arc
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Old News (permalink)
"I felt the tingle of the magic and fell unresisting."  From The Nine Unknown by Talbot Mundy, 1924.
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#magic #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Raised by elephants.  From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #perambulator
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#alice in wonderland #asterisk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Redlands' 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #candle #processional #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The moon's influence on mortality.  From The Dissector, 1844.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#death #moon #vintage diagram #diagram
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Old News (permalink)
"You'd be like me wondering how I came to be here, not troubled but not happy."  From the North Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #costume #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

***
"Joshua Lowfitz and his Trumpeters are doing the Waltz of Jericho, and I understand their performance brings the house down."

***
"This is my old friend Dr. Watney, and whatever you have to say may be said freely in his presence, as he is remarkably inattentive."

***
We found his Lordship puttering in the garden, using an old wood-shafted putterer.

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"It can only refer to the C-stop of the giant organ at Albert Hall, since it is the only organ I am familiar with!"

***
"Of course," he said languidly, and reached behind him for a Venusian.
[Nonexistent "exotic" cigarette types are a running joke in the oeuvre.]

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[Dr. Watney's hospitality, in the Bagel Street rooms]
Lord Epsworth...stared contemplatively towards the sideboard. I took his hint and poured myself a drink.

***
He brusquely pushed aside a plate of curried favour.
[Btw, a constant diet of incongruous curry- and chutney-based dishes is another running joke]

***
"Arrange for a four-in-hand while I send a message for the Inspector....No, no, Watney! Not a cravat! A carriage!"
***






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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Barnes' Language Lessons or Short Studies in English, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #illustration #1880s
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August 18, 2025

The Right Word (permalink)
From The Creepie-Stool, an unusual "single-poet anthology for chidlren" by Elizabeth Fleming and illustrated by Hugh Chesterman, peppered with Scots words like "stravaiging."
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#vintage illustration #cat #1930s #butter #illustration
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We've been on that flight!  "A journey of 956 years by aeroplane."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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#airplane #vintage headline #temporal anomaly #headline
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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 #shepherd #sheep #caveman #illustration #prehistoric
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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 #locomotive #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #making faces #stupefied
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Old News (permalink)
At first glance, we thought a love letter had been opened by mistake in a wolven building, which explained the seeming scratch marks in the second word of the headline.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ruins #tower #tarot tower #toppling #falling building
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Old News (permalink)
"I want the ones that look like little pillows."  From Australian Women's Weekly, 1952.
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#vintage headline #pillow #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 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 #cat #up a tree
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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 #anthropomorphism #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caricature, the Wit & Humor of a Nation In Picture, Song and Story, 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 #lobster #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1913 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 #faces in things #on top of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bird versus mouse.  From Chatterbox, 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 #bird #mouse #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Milo Winter, 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 #mythology #dragon #golden fleece
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoes
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Self-Help English Lessons, Book Three by Julia Helen Wohlfarth & John J. Mahoney and illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #train #grammar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Then we had a fascinating conversation about the occult."  From Dark Shadows episode 496.
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#occult #dark shadows
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"That's a funny way to say your prayers."  From the University of Western Ontario's 1960 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer #vintage yearbook #sleeping #1960s #vintage man
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Old News (permalink)
"When man wed a tree."  From The Occult Digest, 1929.
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#tree #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insect #1890s #illustration
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August 17, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A rare depiction of the vanilla imp.  From Wee Wisdom1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1930s #illustration #cooking #vanilla
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 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 #sheep #illustration #black sheep #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #caged animal #zoo #1860s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, His Book by Eva March Tappan and illustrated by Charlotte Harding, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #robin hood #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 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 #1920s #design #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat #shepherd #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Rogues playing with food."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hippo #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"'Hard man, who?' as seen in the northern woods.  How giant lumbermen amuse themselves in bunkhouse—rough pastime demonstrates the endurance of the human body."  From the Duluth Herald, 1915.
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#lumberjack #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bharathi 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 #sunrise #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #horse costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's lesson in drawing people with two or more lips, noses, and eyes is from Phrenological Journal, 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drawing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Lees-McRae College's bobcat, from the 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bobcat
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Old News (permalink)
"Can spirits possess the dead?  The young girl died.  Then she sat up in bed and a series of strange voices began speaking from her lips."  From Fate Magazine, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #occult #spiritualism #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1901 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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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Why does one do anything that one does in dreams?"  From Dark Shadows episode 485.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #dark shadows
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Experiment in Crime, by John Rhode:

["John Rhode" was a pen name used by a writer named Cecil Street. It took me a while to catch on to the homophonic pun there! Moreover, another pen name of Street's was Miles Burton. Miles of Streets and Rhodes! And, as you'll see, it's all about fun names here...]

***
Halesworth had mentioned her name. What the dickens was it? Sofa? Divan? No, he'd got it. "Can I see Miss Chesterfield?"
***

Bonuses:
Mytton House
Pomfret Hall
Chipchase [a surname]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage photo #1890s #illustration #photo
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August 16, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's conversation with a clothespin.  From Wee Wisdom, 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 #1920s #laundry #illustration #clothesline #clothespin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1964.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant #1960s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"She chats with an Ambassador.  She lunches with a Prince ... and a nation breathes freely once more."  From Youth's Companion, 1927.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1890s #heads #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"True ghost story.  Mangled spook haunted railroad tunnel and hailed trainmen."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#ghost #ghost story #vintage headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Fill in the shapes that are not animal names, so as to reveal a silhouette of a creature once considered mythological.  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #animals #puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #costume party #masquerade #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #costume #dormouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #giant #gulliver #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From All About Kisses by Damocles and illustrated by Halbott Brown (Phiz), 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 illustration #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bryson 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 #bridge #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #circus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Juniata College's 1917 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)
"A paint-brush duel at the beaux-arts."  From Bohemian Paris of To-Day by William Chambers Morrow (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 #painter #men fighing
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Old News (permalink)
"A long day longer."  From Edinboro University of Pennsylvania's 1984 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Gravestones in [Hartford's] old cemetery.  From Scribner's 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 illustration #cemetery #graveyard #tombstone #gravestone #epitaph
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923. 
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #elf #dream #clown #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Union College's 1991 yearbook.

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#wizard #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1990s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a crack gives the window a pain."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1906.
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August 15, 2025

Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1926.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland by Howard Roger Garis and illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
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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.
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
"No news ISN'T good news."  From The Current Sauce, 1955.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Logos magazine, 1972.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #mask #pompeii
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emerald Dragon Guide Book.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The lion of hell has snake hair.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Father Time leaves sandy footprints.  From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #footprints
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Secret of Cooking for Cats by Martin Gardner.
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Old News (permalink)
"The people who don't care don't bother."  From Memphis State University's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #apathy #headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #crossword puzzle
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, 1913:

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[Theodore Dreiser] thinks out his characters to six places of decimals. [Mencken]

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Everything in the room except the grate and the cat seemed to be playing puss-in-the-corner.

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the "Great-Horn-Spoon microscope" [George Bronson-Howard; and I've learned that "By the great-horn-spoon" is a vintage oath!]

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that polished peanut style that passes for Stevensonian English in the "culture" clubs [Bronson-Howard]

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The actor is considered very gravely in England. Indeed, he is at times even looked upon as being of some help to the art of the drama. [Nathan]

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Mrs. Van der Giffengiffel [a nonexistent character Mencken makes up, as an example of a type who does not appear in a book he's praising]
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[Bonus names:]
Miss Never-Mind-Who
Miss Who-Do-You-Think

Re. one of the attachments: "There's a reason" I find that Grape-Nuts ad amusing, namely, because Grape-Nuts are so ridiculously crunchy that one might indeed wish to have a blacksmith soften them up (sort of like prewashed jeans?).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Following New Trails by Horn, Moscrip & Porter, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #beaver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #illustration #men #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #crow #cricket #pinocchio #1900s #illustration
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August 14, 2025

The Right Word (permalink)
From Apropos Of Dolores by H. G. Wells, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #dog #hybrid #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #puppet #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From How to Sing by W. H. Griffiths, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #music notation #diagram #1900s #illustration #tenor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Edgar B. Thurstan, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Blue Man by Giuseppe Fanciulli and translated by May M. Sweet, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cricket #1920s #grasshopper #illustration #paper doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Text Books of Art Education V by Hugo Froehlich and Bonnie Snow, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #dog #1900s #illustration #nursery rhyme #old mother hubbard
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Make a box.  But do not color it.  It is white."  From Manual for Teaching the Primer The Little White House by Russell & Ousley, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.
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#anti-coloring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of Childhood by Alice M. Chesterton and illustrated by Gertrude M. Bradley, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #living toys
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Old News (permalink)
"Palaces in kingdom come: famous men building them."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#heaven #vintage headline #castle in the air #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Greek Terra-cotta Statuettes by Marcus B. Huish, 1900.
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#vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan University of West Virginia's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #hell #crow #blackbird #bat man #cape #hades #bat wings #differential
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Front Row Club and the hair restoration products they use.  From Rush Medical College's 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baldness #hair less
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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#oz #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Men's chocolate.  From Australian Women's Weekly, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1940s #chocolate #ad
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1904 yearbook.
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#vintage diagram #vintage yearbook #yearbook #writing #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #flower #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Wanted.  A limited amount of money (in any sums)."  From The Religio-Philosophical Journal, 1891.
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#vintage ad #money #vintage headline #headline #ad
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August 13, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box #boxing #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The house that ghosts built."  From Ghost Stories, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #tree #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany Friends and Neighbours by Gray & Monroe, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #1940s #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Explain, when you are able, how it happened that you did not foresee what occurred."  From Brown's Language Lessons by Henry Kiddle, 1889.
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#vintage diagram #sentence diagram #diagram #foresight #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1900s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Do not jump on ancient uncles."  From Expressways, Grade 3, Level 6, Handstands by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #advice #illustration #uncle
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Ampersands (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
* A manual for typographers published in 1917 acknowledged that there are many beautiful forms of the ampersand, yet it forbade their use in "ordinary book work."  Extraordinary books are another matter.  Our lavishly illustrated Ampersand opus explores the history and pictography of the most common coordinating conjunction.
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#vintage illustration #nursery rhyme #pie
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Sundials (permalink)
From Marion College's 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Overload and Boredom by Orrin E. Klapp, 1986.
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#vintage headline #headline #information society
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Littleton College's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #memory #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"She's the big wig in the wiggery."  From The Australian Women's Weekly,  1968.
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#wig #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #beachwear #1920s #cross dressing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Motto: I wanta be bad."  From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #griffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gryphon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rend Lake College's 1981 yearbook.
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#shakespeare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #as you like it #all the world's a stage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The mystical radiance of the night.  From Occult Gazette, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #occult #darkness #esoteric #night #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #illustration #buggy
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Old News (permalink)
"10 years with a ghost.  My cat stared as an invisible person walked into the room and stopped behind my chair."  From Fate Magazine, no. 52.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Worrying over his troubles."  From The Children's Book, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #donkey #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #beard #1960s #illustration
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August 12, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #angel #prison #biblical #1940s #illustration #peter
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#eagle #prof. oddfellow #metaphor #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #animals #vintage book #book #1920s #illustration #pets
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 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 #pig #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars In Their Courses by Sir James Jeans, 1931.
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#outer space #night sky #meteor #nebula
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #illustration #fox-hound
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
Would it be funny if Uncle Fred couldn't tell a yam from a sweet potato, was allergic to livestock, lacked a green thumb, and had no management skills?  From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #farm
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Old News (permalink)
"Earth rushing next month towards a furnace.  But it will turn away in time."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer by Solomon Benjamin Shaw, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #angel #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Would whistle on way by grave yard.  Then all will be well.  'If we can whistle as we pass the grave yard, we are going to be all right.'"  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#cemetery #graveyard #superstition #whistling #vintage headline #whistle #headline
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #weather #hand of god #watering can #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horn #viking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #clown #lion #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw University's 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hear no evil #see no evil #vintage men #speak no evil #1980s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Borderlands, 1994.
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#magick #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State University's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #hat #vintage man #moustache
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Old News (permalink)
From The Sky Is Falling by Lester Del Rey, 1973.
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#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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #musician #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"This fuss."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Man from Home by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson, ill. Luther S. White:



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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1920s #faun #mountain #illustration
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August 11, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #twins #constellation #1900s #illustration #gemini #castor and pollux #great twins
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Butcher bird.  From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #capital t #bird #letter t #1920s #illustration #butcher bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #animal fight #1960s #illustration #seal
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Old News (permalink)
"Snakes he has met."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#snake #vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"She's nauseous, she's hysterical, and she's exhausted.."  From Dark Shadows episode 1117.
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#dark shadows
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
* 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 #anthropomorphism #ship #mouse #duck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A giant mask, British Columbia.  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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#vintage illustration #mask
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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 #anthropomorphism #dog #goat #nursery rhyme
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1872.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #baboon #mandrill
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The man who said that kissing begat microbes."  From Rush Medical College's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #germs #kissing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan by Gertrude Adams Fisher, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #japan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hobo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Something is happening here and it's getting worse."  From The Devil's Advocate, 1995.
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#getting worse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insect #pipe smoker #bug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Seaside Sibyl, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #poison #rat #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College'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 #smile #grin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Phrenological Journal, 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 #baseball #weight of the world #crushed
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
From Dead Is the New Black by Marlene Perez, 2008.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tramp #yearbook #hobo #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What percentage will you give me if I infect the whole neighborhood?"  From The Instructor, 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 #doctor #disease #1940s #illustration
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August 10, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mirage, 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 #world #devil #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine #why the earth wobbles
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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 #robin hood #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Building a house with a flame."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"With fate still dealing the cards."  From Photo-Era Magazine, 1923.
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#fate #fortune teller #card reader #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She "had her wish: she was a statue."  From The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #statue #living statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cinderella
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #tiny man
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Old News (permalink)
"Burdens can help."  From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #crushing #weighed down #headline #burden
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #money #falling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't mind my yawn!  Keep right on.  I could listen to this for hours."  From The Film Daily, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #yawn #illustration #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1901 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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Old News (permalink)
"Let misery hide itself and hold its tongue; otherwise it is treason."  From Progressive Thinker, 1906.
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#misery #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"No vehicles other than library deliveries."  From Lawrence University's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#bicycle #vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #sign
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #surveying
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Old News (permalink)
"The evil in Modernism."  From The Improvement Era, 1929.
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#vintage headline #modernism #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Spell A-L-I-E-N.  It begins with a lie.  Dispel the deception.  Say no."  From The Devil's Advocate, #6.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Phil May Picture Book, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1900s #illustration #vintage man #man
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Bunker Bean, by Harry Leon Wilson:

He treasured the words; fondled them with the point of his pencil.
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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 #donkey #illustration
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August 9, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1964.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dancing #long hair #1960s #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #eclipse #1920s #diagram #illustration
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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 #new york #ferry #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An experience with robbers."  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 #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shakespeare's Comedy of The Merchant of Venice, edited by William J. Rolfe, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #deity #janus #two-faced #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Central Ohio shares a border with the outer limits."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#ohio #vintage headline #headline #outer limits
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Old News (permalink)
From The Bombay Chronicle Weekly, 1950.
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#skeleton #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Kodak Magazine, 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 #dancing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's statues having a picnic are from The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #picnic #living statue
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1928 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
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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 #flying pig #pig #nursery rhyme #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1872.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1947 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paper Doll Poems by Pauline King, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #owl #scarecrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The tenth labor of Hercules.  From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #hercules
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #melting #heatwave
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Old News (permalink)
"Can one thoughtless mistake ruin one's whole life?"  From Reality Magazine, 1939.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's partially invisible woman is from Wheaton College's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #illustration #invisible man #invisible woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #winter #1930s #illustration
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August 8, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter #cloud #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #sphinx #1900s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English In Action 1 by Tressler & Shelmadine, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #uncle sam #1930s #illustration #mail #mailman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #through the looking glass #alice in wonderland #queen #1890s #illustration
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #color theory #1930s #illustration #color wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858. 
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#vintage illustration #shoe #old woman who lived in a shoe #illustration #1850s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The iron man goes down in the sea."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#robot #diver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How to make three little children dance in glass upon a table."  From Conjurers' Monthly Magazine, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #magic trick
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The only way to see the 'Light of the world' is to put out your own candle."  From Gospel Herald, 1915.
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#candle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pianist #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hypnotism Revealed by Melvin Powers, 1956.
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#crystal ball #hypnosis #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Karmenia, or, What the Spirit Told Me by Lyman E. Stowe, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit guide
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a deck of eight Tarot-like archetypes from Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tarot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"What does it mean?"  From Northern Illinois State Teachers College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #binoculars
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A portrait without an ectoplasmic bag ... it's like a spring break without a jellyfish!  From The Case for Spirit Photography by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1923.  And featured in this video.
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#spirit photography #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #in memoriam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The arrow "indicates the direction in which the crockery came out of the cupboard."  From Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #floorplan #poltergeist
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Spenders, by Harry Leon Wilson:

***
With her hand extended she had uttered, "Why, Mr.—" before it flashed upon her that she did not know the name of the young man she was greeting.
The "Mister" was threatening to prolong itself into an "r" of excruciating length and disgraceful finality, an "r" that is terminated neatly by no one but hardened hotel-clerks. Then a miner saved the day. "Mr. Bines," he said, coming up hurriedly behind Percival with several specimens of ore, "you forgot these."
"-r-r-r. Bines, how do you do!" concluded the girl with an eye-flash of gratitude at the humble instrument that had prevented an undue hiatus in her salutation.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Two kits and one kaboodble."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1961.
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#cat #vintage photo #1960s #kitten #photo
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August 7, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Well, that suspense resolved quickly -- "I was able to draw my legs up."  From Youth's Companion1923.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear #1920s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Forever is something that never ends."  From Dark Shadows episode 214.
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#dark shadows #forever
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Text Books of Art Education, Book VI by Hugo Froehlich & Bonnie Snow, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #illustration #poem #road
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #egypt #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's cherry stem man and dog are from Pour Amuser Les Enfants by Victor Delosière (undated).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #toy #cherry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Formal and informal balance.  From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Catch me if you can!"  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 #turtle #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Make merry with feast and song."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage headline #headline #merrymaking
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click for the surprising space helmet reveal. From I Dream of Jeannie, season 5, episode 18.

From I Dream of Jeannie, season 5, episode 18
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#i dream of jeannie #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Take One magazine, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine #godzilla
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #shower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Needlework by Lewis F. Day, 1900.
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#vintage book #book #needlework #sewing #needlepoint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1872.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rush Medical College's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #reading #finis #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Crib-horses from the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #hobby horse #horse
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1922 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Peterson's Magazine, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #dog #vintage magazine #magazine #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's Jesus contemplating a crucifix is from Southwestern Bible Institutes 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus #crucifix
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #envelope #deliver us from evil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stick figure #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Your luck begins today!"  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #luck #good luck #lucky #1960s #illustration #ad
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August 6, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Revealed: popcorn comes from the fairy that lives in the moon.  From Youth's Companion, 1891.  We previously saw that the smell of popcorn is a ghost, here.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1890s #popcorn #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Eve of Saint Venus by Anthony Burgess, 1964.
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#past
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #medieval #thirteenth century #organ #illustration #musical instrument
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Swallows.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 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 #bird #swallow #1930s #illustration #birdhouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Won't there be searchlights?'  She has never known a world without searchlights."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #searchlight #1940s #illustration #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute'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 #art class
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #animal attack #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heavens by Amedée Guillemin, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #moon #lunar landscape
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dancing #apple tree
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #dove #crow #shadow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The brain and stomach under a microscope.  From Rush Medical College's 1894 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 #microscopic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's chess-playing cat is from The Town Cats by Lloyd Alexander.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#anthropomorphism #cat #chess #smart animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The monk-devil fight.  From Swarthmore College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A holiday in bed."  From Princess Mary's Gift Book, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Capital University's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #moustache #football
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
The three colors of the operations of the philosopher's stone.  From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
* Though printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. In this rebus-style puzzle, color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes. Try to guess the exact hue of each. Roll your mouse over the colored boxes to reveal the missing words. Click the colored boxes to learn more about each hue. Special thanks to Paul Dean for his colorful research.
 
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#vintage illustration #biblical #philosopher's stone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From "Is College Training Useful On the Farm?" in Lebanon Valley College's 1919 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Lucky Heart Curio Catalog, undated.
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August 5, 2025

The Right Word (permalink)
Michelle Arnot was done a disservice with this book cover showing but a single four-letter word in a crossword grid.  From Four-letter Words, 2008.
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#book design #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhyme Time for Children by Emilie Poulsson and illustrated by W. M. Berger, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fort Wayne Sentinel, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A busy day in Boston."  From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1872.
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#vintage illustration #cornwall #1870s #mountain spirit
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From Snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren, 1863.
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#vintage illustration #snowflake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #thermometer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Last American by John Ames Mitchell, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #ruins #bridge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Medical cadavers after hours.  From Rush Medical College's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #living dead #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cadaver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1878.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.
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#vintage illustration #map #burma
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado State University's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tied up
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Dirty Duck."  From The Martlet, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #duck #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sharing Experiences by McKee & McCowen and illustrated by Corinne Malvern & Sylvia Haggander, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Ainslee's, 1920:

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To hear Miss Kelly's singing voice is more fully to understand her great success in pantomime. [Dorothy Parker]

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a desert scene, of course, with the good old Sphinx on the backdrop [Parker]
***

[All the attachments are also Parker, with the exception of the one about the "O O"--which in context clearly means the "once-over," i.e., scanning someone's appearance from head to toe. I love the way it evokes eyes!]







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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #duck #1900s #hen #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Dumb Animals, 1948.
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#cat #vintage photo #1940s #kitten #photo
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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).
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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August 4, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Nothing was lacking except inspiration, and that she expected at any moment."  From Youth's Companion1918.
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#vintage illustration #inspiration #writing #illustration #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Horror host Unkle Spooky sends a list of demands in advance of a pajama party with the vampiric Viscount Vitchm'call, on Grave Mood Rings.
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy #unkle spooky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).
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#vintage illustration #cupid #1890s #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 #1920s #pig #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 #vintage diagram #hell #map #dante #diagram #illustration #infernal #inner earth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #camping #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How to get even?"  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #mouth #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #tea #illustration #living toys #toy
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
Sonwflakes carry germs (top photo).  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #snowflake
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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 #fairy tale #beauty and the beast
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baseball #caveman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #phrenology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
King Pluto's chariot.  From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #chariot #pluto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Trinity University's 1956 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mirror #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#ghost #spirit photography
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1915.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #levitating hat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
What's there to think about?  What's there to talk about?  What's there to ruin?  What's there to lose?  From Dark Shadows episodes 249, 262, 256, and 1230.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Trinity Christian College's 1995 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and darkness #1990s
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Old News (permalink)
"Jill the platypus goes astray."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
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August 3, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion1918.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #faces in things #coffee #illustration #bean #1910s #ad #coffee bean
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#prof. oddfellow #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #illustration #server #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #cat #pig #1860s #illustration #humane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, illustrated by Edwin John Prittie, 1923.  
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#vintage illustration #robin hood #bishop #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Catches brook trout from bedroom window."  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#fishing #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #rhino #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"So you think you're on frequency."  From 73 Magazine, 1968.
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#radio #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Practical mysticism."  Illustration from Ten Steps to Self-Fulfillment, Step Two by Robert Chaney amd illustrated by Teodors Liliensteins, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #occult #esoteric #halo #mysticism
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Old News (permalink)
"Tibetan mystics probably are not snowmen but they are able to live naked throughout the entire winter."  From Fate Magazine, 1959.
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#yeti #bigfoot #vintage headline #buddhist #headline #abominable snowman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print; a book's a book, although there's nothing in 't" (Byron).  From University of Mary Washington's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#calligraphy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #byron
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Utensels for the offering of various sacrifices."  From Guide for Drawing the Acanthus by James Page, 1886.
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#religion #vintage illustration #sacrifice #ritual items
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rush Medical College's 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1957 yearbook.

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#mask #drummer #vintage yearbook #costume #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #pickle #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Never carry your gloves in your hat."  From Drawings by John Leech, 1909.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Fom Life, Jan.-June 1925:

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Father Time (he is not really our father, but we call him that because he is such an old dear and we love him so) [Benchley]

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These two gentlemen have done enough damage to the old Barrie whimsy in the past six months to justify his never whimsying again. [Benchley]

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Our American producers use miles of subtitles...to get over one idea. [Sherwood]

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several new finger exercises descriptive of a train passing through Syracuse, New York [Benchley]

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Paths to Paradise, so named because there is absolutely no connection between the title and the story [Sherwood]
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[Bonus: "ingenuances" to mean the acting repertoire of screen ingenues]

Note on the attachment labeled "junior" (included for its "at any rate, somebody's doing this now" choreography): A layer of confusion cleared for me once I realized that "senior" is "junior's" father, and not a fellow collegian who's aged extraordinarily in only one year.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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August 2, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We, too, in our excitement, forget the pigeons.  From Wee Wisdom, 1933.
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
Our musical collaboration with Dr. Sarcofiguy — it's "The Monster Mash," for the Funny Music Project's tribute to Dr. Demento.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1889.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Outdoor Book by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #native american #1920s #illustration #tepee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1964.
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Old News (permalink)
"Standing on the brink of something awul."  From The Omen, 1999.
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#vintage headline #headline #fear mongering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #knight #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's not going so well when you get pre-emptive unsolicited rejections.  From Jizz: The Story of a New Renaissance Man and the Riddle of Existence by John Hart, 1992.
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#rejection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The key to the book door.  From Manchester College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #door #key
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Guide for Drawing the Acanthus by James Page, 1886.
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#vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #horse #drawing #geometry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rush Medical College's 1894 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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Old News (permalink)
"Where the microcosm meets the macrocosm."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #microcosm #vintage headline #macrocosm #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #shock #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's moment of feeling the poetry within is from Northwestern University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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Old News (permalink)
"Raising psychic children."  From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage headline #esp #headline #phychic
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Old News (permalink)
"Would a remade world be one after your own ideas?"  From Reality Magazine, 1939.
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#vintage headline #headline
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August 1, 2025

The Right Word (permalink)
Merriam-Webster traces the first use of the idiom "lose the plot" to 1984.  We can do better!  The earliest instance we've yet found of having "lost the plot" involves a fisherman's story in E. Boyd Smith's My Village, 1896.  Then there's a reference to being "apt to lose the plot" in the New York Times, June 29, 1902.  (Our image is from Grave Mood Rings.)
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#etymology #idiom #lost the plot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The doughnut menagerie."  From Youth's Companion1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #doughnut #donut #1900s #illustration #food art #playing with food #food sculpture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Kings and Queens, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #king #illustration #1880s #edward the fourth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #autumn #leaf #autumn leaves #hide and seek #1900s #illustration #hiding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #chair #1930s #illustration #chippendale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Trésor des Jeunes Conteurs by J .E. Poirier, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #greece #yearbook #swinging
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Letters From a Cat by Helen Hunt Jackson and illustrated by Addie Ledyard, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #cat #wet cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #stethoscope
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Interesting to see the widespread bias against singers in yearbooks.  Croacking frogs and yowling cats are the usual symbols for glee clubs.  From Indiana University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Character Analysis In Condensed Form by Ona Marie Rasher, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #character reading #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1951 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1937.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #gnome #pen and ink #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Folk of the Woods by Lucius Crocker Pardee and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #up a tree #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's pumpkin goddess is from Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Mr. Finchley Discovers his England, by Victor Canning:

[When the End Is Only the Beginning dept.: Thanks to a minor Kindle malfunction, I began reading what I thought was the beginning of this book, whereas it was actually the epilogue. It was obviously a post-adventure wrap-up, so until I discovered the error, I thought the main narrative was going to be a flashback. And, since I ended up reading only about half the book (the first half, having rectified the problem), it turned out my sneak peek at the ending was my only encounter with the denouement.]

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He tiptoed through the tulips into his trousers.

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In the pass, the hills made him feel small and they seemed to be annoyed with him. If he climbed their flanks and found the top they might become his friends.

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Something in the way the reversed S in the cottage tea-sign leaned back in a homely fashion to tickle the A, hinted that the cottage was the better place for him.

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"Much as I should like to prolong our conversation--or rather your monologue on the philosophy of laziness--I do not want to stop here all day."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Under the Maple Tree by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #bird #illustration
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