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September 30, 2018

Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Seven against Reeves, by Richard Aldington:

***

Just as Mr. Reeves was producing another Stravinsky passage on the electric bell, the door was flung open.

***

In the foreground was a hare which looked like a tortoise, and a tortoise which looked like a hare--for Mr. Marsbate had been to Eton and had heard of the problem of Achilles....

***

Next time, she reflected, she would have a silent protégé--a mountaineer or a sculptor, who couldn't possibly perform in the drawing-room.

***

The acquaintance developed like a motion picture of growing vegetation. [I.e., a time-lapse; the acquaintance developed quickly.]

***

[The best scene is a party that occurs early on. Here are the highlights.]

"And the Press is here, my dear! Janet Fogherty of the Lick-Spittle, Jessie O'Dour of the Powder-Puff and McSwiney of the Sponge."

[...]

Mr. Hawksneetch... looked down his nose at Mr. Reeves as if gazing down the wrong end of a telescope. Mr. Reeves wasn't going to stand that, so he metaphorically turned the telescope round and looked distantly down his nose at Mr. Hawksneetch. Their instantaneous dislike for each other was as beautifully equal as an equation.

[...]

The room was about half-full of people all polly-doodling to each other with an air of much animation.

[...]

[Lady Blakebridge] was the widow of a minor official who had been knighted by mistake, owing to a clerical error in the Honours List; which so much annoyed the responsible authority that when the real man came up next year he only got an O.B.E.

[...]

"He's just published a monumental book on Dr. Johnson--much better than Boswell--oh, miles better--and such a success--two columns in the Log-roller and a page in the Back-scratcher."

[...]

Was this the face that launched a thousand novelists?

***

[More good names: Mrs. Faddiman-Fish and Mr. Higgins-Wragge. Higgins-Wragge is a composer, and later on people are described as dropping into a party at which he's performing for "a cup of coffee and a Higgins-Wragge."]

***

[And another good verb construction: "Darby-and-Joaning away."]

***

[And, not to neglect the theatrical programme: "Cloppety-Clop, the new revue."]

 

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sastrel'shchik, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Eyeteeth.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By H. H. Bimmerstedt.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Saint Patrick baptizes a giant.  From Over the Hookah by George Frank Lydston, 1896.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's Young People, 1888.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Monk of the Mountain."  From Fairy Tales from the Harz Mountains by Alfred Cooper Fryer, 1908.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #water spirit #long beard #king neptune #trident #river spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe #ruins #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1889.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1915.
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September 29, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #piano #sleeping #illustration #jazz #piano bed
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel but should not be used in conjunction with near-death experiences.  From the University of Rhode Island's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #follow the light #long hallway #light at the end of it
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #looking up #it's a bird it's a plane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fish #singing fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bartender #sheep #horns #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I do hate getting up."  From The Strand, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #giant #guillotine #decapitated #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Shoemaker's Apron, A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Parker Fillmore and illustrated by Jan Matulka, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cauldron #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #flying nun #giant hat #if you had wings #illustration #the people could fly #airplane hat #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #beard #before and after #illustration #bald #making faces #hair loss
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #spider #arachnophilia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the "pet rock" fad—pet golf balls.  From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #golf ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #divination #owl #full moon #occult #fortune telling #prediction #psychic #moon magic #1906
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #artist #desk job #types of work #humorist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #musician #contrabass #double bass
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September 28, 2018

What I Now Know (permalink)
"I felt for a few moments like she would spring up from the ground with a sharp 'Boo!' and it would all be over.  It would mean that my nightmare would never have started, and I'd be sleeping much more comfortably these days, unaware of what I now know."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #alcohol #bottle #giant bottle #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe, by Erle Stanley Gardner:

***

"What's new, Paul?"

The detective sat down in the big leather chair, and turned around, draping his legs over one of its arms. "Lots of things," he said, lighting a cigarette.

"Well," Mason told him, "begin in the middle and work both ways."

***

"Of course, I can't be certain myself because I got it from that snooty old Mrs. Blank, and she's the worst gossip on earth, but her brother-in-law works for a Broadway columnist and his secretary told..."

***

"Leave the worrying to me," he told her. "I believe that was the bargain, wasn't it?"

"No," she said with a smile, "Virginia took over the worrying concession."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #1895
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #big hat #leave me alone #tank #hat #tank hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #golf ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #rebirth #skull #crown #dead king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #tiny men #people collection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #dragon #human headed #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #fish #indigestion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #hat #architectural fashion #architectural hat
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #flying trunk
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A spirit photo from Shadow Land or Light from the Other Side by E. d' Espérance. 1897.
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#ghost #spiritualism #seance #spirit photography #spirit photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #lantern #boat #1920s #styx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Smell of Reeves & Mortimer running gag about a parent who begs for "booze for t'baby," which we featured at this link.  From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cherub #drinking #illustration #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #temptation #serpent #snake #eden #adam and eve #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alligator #bloomers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #walking the dog #if looks could kill #electric eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #faces #happy and sad #comedy and tragedy
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September 27, 2018

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel, but only if you are doubly lost in a world where you must choose and choose aright as though by light in darkest night.  From the Southwestern University yearbook of 1979.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #perspective
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #explosion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sastrel'shchik, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #medusa #snake hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.  Speaking of Nostradamus, see the bizarre proof that Nostradamus Predicted Your Next Diet.
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#vintage illustration #astrologer #brainstorm #saturn #nostradamus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #angel #holy water #lourdes #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#religion #vintage illustration #demon
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #crooked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #six children
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see what happens next. From Fliegende Blätter, 1929.

Clown face silhouette from Fliegende Blätter, 1929
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#vintage illustration #spooked #silhouette #animated gif #illustration #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #boiled alive #lobster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The artist's signature barked by a dog.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #unisex
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Soon he began to cry."  From The Shoemaker's Apron, A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Parker Fillmore and illustrated by Jan Matulka, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #hell #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #monster #shadow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #giant #satyr #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #hourglass #time #illustration #art
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Old News (permalink)
You've heard of the "elephant in the room," and it turns out every home should have one.  The headline reads, "What is home without an elephant?"  From The Judge, 1921.
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#elephant #weird headline #vintage headline #elephant in the room #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton
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September 26, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Helping normalcy along."  From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #normalcy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We have terrible news -- "grim reaper" is plural.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #coffin #horror #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #giant sunglasses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Practica de Los Exercicios Espirituales de Nuestro Padre San Ignacio, 1675.  Courtesy of the Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez.
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#vintage illustration #hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #birdcage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Ernst Petzold.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #silhouette #shadow
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #prayer #gold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #railroad tracks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #sword fight #illustration #cut in half
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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 #goose #mother goose #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #his master's voice #mickey mouse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #monster #sea monster #vintage magazine #tentacles #illustration #giant octopus #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #hercules #living statue #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #silhouette #scythe #art
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #merman #poseidon #faces in things #king neptune #ocean spirit #sea spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Burelom, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #demon #vampire #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #cat #fashion #vintage fashion
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September 25, 2018

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

We're honored by this new review:

Machinarium Verbosus: A Curiosity Cabinet of Gadgets to Transform Any Book & Reader, To Be Sure really should be used as a workbook in college courses. And not just Literature courses but all manner of Philosophy, Psychology, even business and advertising. It's a great exercise book to get the right brain flexing some muscle and exerting a bit of power over the left brain. Get the creative energy flowing... I'm reminded of Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Creative Artist Within. —Adam McFarland



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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate self-hypnosis.  From a 1979 Arlington yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #long exposure #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"War has always been, is now, and always will be a huge and profitable business" (Thomas Butler).  From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #money #cannon #war profiteering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A donation in your name has been made to the Society for Suffering Cats.  From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hybrid #human headed #crying animal #sea lion #i am the walrus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #crocodile #trident
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #trapped #tiny people #illustration #specimen bottle #caught in a jar #specimen jar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #birds #bird hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rheims Cathedral.  From Nature's Harmonic Unity by Samuel Colman, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #cathedral #architecture #sacred geometry #illustration #rheims
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #grotesque #spirits #demons #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Old English Fairy Tales by Sabine Baring-Gould and illustrated by F. D. Bedford, 1895.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #sea monster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #global warming #illustration #world on fire #globe pipe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A light bearer, drawn by a spirit during a seance.  From Light, A Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #angel #spiritualism #spirit drawing #illustration #angel of light #light bearer #light bringer
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #demon #giant #genie #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #illustration #putting the light out
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton key #castle #1920s #key
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's an example of doing it all wrong.  If only this had already been written: How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Les Hommes du Jour, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #ball and chain #half cat #man cat #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've ever played cards with a sore-losing ghost.  From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #card game #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Scoop, by Evelyn Waugh:

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"Only last week the Poet Laureate wrote us an ode to the seasonal fluctuation of our net sales."

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"That must be good style. At least it doesn't sound like anything else to me."

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"Going up," they cried in Punch-and-Judy accents, and before anyone could enter, snapped their doors and disappeared from view.

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From that moment a new, more human note was apparent in their relationship; conversation was still far from easy but they had this bond in common, that neither of them liked cider.

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"I will not have a barrier erected between me and my staff. I am as accessible to the humblest..." Lord Copper paused for an emphatic example..."the humblest book reviewer as I am to my immediate entourage."

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Lord Copper quite often gave banquets; it would be an understatement to say that no one enjoyed them more than the host, for no one else enjoyed them at all, while Lord Copper positively exulted in every minute.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #king #lion #lion king
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September 24, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It was Mistress Toothache, her terrible highness!  I felt as if a red hot awl passed through my cheekbone."  From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #demon #pain #toothache
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Rhode Island's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alligator #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if the suspicion is mutual.  From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #blackbird #bird #suspicion #eye to eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail in a corner of L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #fairy tale #wolf #little red riding hood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #bathtub #dumped out
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Broma: Órgana Política Liberala, 1881.  Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #human headed #centaur #illustration #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #giant #throwing rocks #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Who are you?—Are you a ghost?"  From The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #reading #illumination #illustration #bald head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #crown #clown #harlequin #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #demon #grotesque #illustration #bizarre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #bookworm #1930s #illustration #book worm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #runner #ideal and actual #olympian #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"If your guests really followed instructions and made themselves at home."  From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #make yourself at home
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #time #scythe #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #champagne #popping cork #cannon #bottle #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The hound of the Baskervilles.  From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #dog #guard dog #hound of the baskervilles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
My collection of vintage Puss in Boots imagery is stepping out.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #boots #puss in boots
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig #crying animal #no news is good news #bad news
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September 23, 2018

Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder by Matchlight, by E. C. R. Lorac:

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"Mr. and Mrs. Rameses, conjurors and illusionists--they've a contract with Flodeum Ltd.... Odette Grey... [is] in the chorus at the Frivolity."

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Macdonald had much ado to keep his eyes from studying the intricacies of her hair curling arrangements, for the coils and adjustments and spring-like contrivances reminded him of a dismembered wireless set.

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[Anthropomorphized Telephone Meets Rhetorical Question, Answered dept.]

"Now the blinking telephone can rings its 'ead off and 'oo cares--not me."

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[To say nothing of socks!]

The ex-actor had a lively taste in shirts, ties, and pyjamas, to say nothing of socks.

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[As advertised]

"They say two negatives don't make an affirmative, but the number of negatives in this house induces a few positives in my mind."

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[I think we've seen something like this before, though I don't think it was the British Museum in that instance (nor do I recall which author it was).]

"And that Mr. Carringford--he's about as cheerful as the British Museum."

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"I've been called a lot of things in my time, but not a pattern," said Mr. Rameses.

***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #dandy #men's footwear #vintage man #well-dressed man #big foot #big shoe #man #men's shoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fighting #three against one #ganging up
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #droste effect #infinite loop #recursion
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #world #earth #eye of god #greed #eye in the pyramid #eye in the sky #vintage magazine #glutton #world domination #world conquest #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Placed in the long box.  From The Idler, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #lion #devolution
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #sea serpent #sea monster #sea snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Persian Tales, translated by D. L. R. and E. O. Lorimer and illustrated by Hilda Roberts, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #poison #over-medicated #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Fairy Tales by James Mason, 1873.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #moon #luna #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #atlas #weight of the world #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #chariot #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #monk #alcohol #power of prayer #illustration #drinking problem #let us pray #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage book cover #occult #book cover #spiritualism #spirit medium #book #mystic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #angel #nun #winged woman #force of habit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #art
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September 22, 2018

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Years of the future as cannon balls filled with people.  From Johns Hopkins University's Debutante yearbook of 1889.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cannon #tiny people #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
A question frequently asked by urban explorers is, why was this abandoned building never demolished?  Tim Powers reveals the surprising answer in Expiration Date: time doesn't pass where there's ruined architecture, or rather time has already passed and left that place behind.  That's why nobody tears it all down -- it's too late.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Looking at the forbidden shoe.  From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #eyesight #shoe #high heel #forbidden fashion #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #blackness #hands #surreal #void #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #strange light #follow the light #glowing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Practica de Los Exercicios Espirituales de Nuestro Padre San Ignacio, 1675.  Courtesy of the Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez.
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#vintage illustration #heaven and hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #long nose #human headed #human insect #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #illustration #dancing animal #chorus line #dancing girls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #architecture #faces in things #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Flying out of the sky they came bringing cheeses."  From Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cheese #illustration #dutch cheese #fairy cheese #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #giant #pipe smoker #illustration #transcontinental #sleeping giant
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Ulk, 1928.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #underwater #sea creature #shark #illustration #diver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #mountain climbing #faces in things #mountain climber #mountain spirit #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy #elf #mouse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #man in the moon #faces in things #moon face #face in the moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #two-headed #two heads #double headed #bicephalous
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Isn't it a wondrous thing that I am always glad?"  From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #smile #keep smiling #attitude
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #monsters
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What exacty is happening here?  Well, "It's always happening more than it ever has been happening" (The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones).  "It's always happening.  But be still now!  They're coming up, and all we can do is to keep them in the dark as well as we can" (William Dean Howells, "The Unexpected Guests").
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #masquerade #costume ball
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September 21, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Fight of horse and dragon."  Which would you wager to win?  From Roumanian Fairy Tales and Legends by E. B. M., 1881.
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Old News (permalink)
"Fate and pajamas."  From The Judge, 1921.
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#pajamas #vintage headline #headline
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What I Now Know (permalink)
"I know regretfully that for me it is too late and there will never be a return to the bliss of ignorance. I didn't want to know as much as I've learned. I wish I could forget what I now know, but I can't."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #illustration #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sastrel'shchik, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #octopus #tentacles #oyster people #clam people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #weightless
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Substitute Face, by Erle Stanley Gardner:
***
[Buying Your Own Hype dept.]

"She's a bit hypnotized by Hollywood."

"Everyone is," Mason grinned, "including Hollywood."

***

[In which Erle Stanley Gardner lets one of his characters (and not even a recurring character) name the book...]

"Ooh, the Big Bad Lawyer!" she laughed. "I forgot I was being cross-examined. What shall we call this, Mr. Mason—'The Case of the Purloined Picture'?"

"It wasn't purloined," he said, "so much as substituted."

"All right, then. 'The Case of the Substitute Face.' How will that do?"

"All right," he said, "at least temporarily."

 

[ Oh, I like this character a lot! A little later...]

"Incidentally, what are your theories?"

She shook her head. "I don't have theories. I'm too young... You don't mind being kidded a bit, do you, Mr. Mason? Because if you do, you only have to say so and I get worse... No, seriously speaking...."

[ I would let her name the book, too, if she showed up in one of mine.]

***

Jackson said, "He's an arrogant, dictatorial, obstinate nincompoop."

"You really should take up profanity, Jackson. It's a lot more satisfying," Mason told him.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #priest #shadow #crucifix
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cat masks.  From Primary Education, 1914.   See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#cat #vintage cat #cat mask #mask template #cut out mask #vintage mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #looming #being watched #surveillance society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #space travel #man in the moon #cherub #rocket #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales of the Samurai, Oguri Hangwan Ichidaiki by James S. De Benneville, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #japanese art #snake #japan #illustration
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #music #opera #conductor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #spooky elevator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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September 20, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #cherub #pipe smoker #boot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1957.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The London Journal, 1863.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #meat grinder #illustration #body disposal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A host of things with wings!"  From St. Nicholas, 1879.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
God's toes.  From Le Rire, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales for Children by Joseph McKim, 1883.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #skull face #illustration #death clown #clown of death
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1929.  See also How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #frog #mouse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #body painting #illustration #dotted line #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #lion #zoo #modern art #crying animal #illustration #cage animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #divination #bat #black cat #fortune teller #animal familiar #wise woman #palm reader #gypsy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1931.
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
Do the math!  From The Judge, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of being blind drunk, but you can get a head start.  From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we thought this was a rare cubed spider web.  From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A serpent of coins.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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September 19, 2018

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Certain seers will perceive this to be an aura photograph.  From the University of Rhode Island's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #aura #vintage yearbook #yearbook #aura photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tag yourself.  From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #demon #death #monster #skeleton #serpent #knight #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #gun #musician #musical gun #musical rifle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #card reader #psychic
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Precursors (permalink)
Supersized drinks aren't newfangled.  From The Judge, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #smoke #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #men's fashion #illustration #necktie #novelty tie #monkey tie
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #shepherd #sheep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an astrological advertisement in Fliegende Blätter, 1930.
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#vintage ad #astrologer #jewish astrology #ad
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #cyclops #one eye #surreal #illustration #bizarre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley, 1833.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #witch #witchcraft #halloween #broomstick #october #hallowe'en #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #spitting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Prepared for death," from The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #ominous #hooded #surveillance society #spy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #piano #pianist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Quips and Cranks by Thomas Hood, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #horse #fear of horses
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #lighthouse #seagull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #flowers
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September 18, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #flying machine #if you had wings #glider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #french horn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A palm reader from L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #divination #black cat #fortune teller #animal familiar #palm reader #art
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Old News (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage headline #diamonds #treasure seeker #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #monkeys #shadow #monkey spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #green face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #occult #magician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A muscular young person used to take him for his airings in an eight-horse-power hill-climbing perambulator."  From Cosmopolitan, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #big baby #giant baby
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dame Dreary dances and grows strong."  From Granny's Wonderful Chair by Frances Browne, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
The day King Neptune got booted out by Italy.  From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #italy #king neptune #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #propaganda #illustration #bureaucrat #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #faces #facial expressions #emotions #cartooning #illustration #art
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"The Flower o' the World asleep."  From The Laughing Prince by Parker Fillmore and illustrated by Jay Van Everen, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #heart #heart face #short skirt #fashion police
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #castle #dreams #ambition #if #roadblock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Book of English Fairy Tales from the North-Country by Alfred Cooper Frye, 1884.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The peace angel is shy about male nudity.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sastrel'shchik, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From An English Murder, by Cyril Hare:

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Those marginalia! Those crabbed, truncated interlineations!... Dr. Bottwink stared in angry bewilderment at the hieroglyphics before him and across two centuries muttered maledictions on Lord Warbeck and his ill-mended quill pen.

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From The Dying Alderman, by Henry Wade:

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[Nonsense Department, Hogwash-and-Eyewash Division]

"This is all mouthwash."

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September 17, 2018

Uncharted Territories (permalink)
Fabrizio Milano has said that "the entire spectrum of an opera cannot be captured on television."  Neither can it be captured by a still camera, as proven by Taylor University's Gem yearbook of 1936.  Two white squares represent operettas caught on film.
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#vintage yearbook #unpictured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #wireless #television #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #birds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Spirit manifestations in the flesh."  From The Book of Magic by Archie Frederick Collins, 1915.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if a satyr has helped you to attain new heights.  From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat legged #standing tall #uplifting #new heights
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The Right Word (permalink)

We don't know that this makes any sort of sense ... but we were thinking about the expression concerning the rarity of hen's teeth, and this re-ordering of syllables popped into our head: "It's like pulling teeth / like teething pullets."

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#anagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #october #hallowe'en #costumes #fire costume #bottle costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #giant #pirate #ghost pirate #pirate ghost #pirate spirit #giant pirate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #vintage magazine #black mass #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #germs #disease #microbes
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #vacuum #wind tunnel #sucked away
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swinton's Book of Tales, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #insects #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Form Quarterly of the Arts, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #mythology #goat legged #faun #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #two-faced #bipolar #happy and sad #illustration #half and half #smile and frown
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gazing all the while in silent admiration with his wide sea-green eyes upon his beauteous wife."  From Fairy Tales by Mark Lemon and illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1875.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales from the Far North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #creature #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #singing #conductor #choir
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Frost King's palace."  From Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott, 1855.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frost king #illustration #ice palace
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
 Here's what it looks like to learn How to Believe in Your Elf.  From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #shadow #elves
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September 16, 2018

Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Noted in passing as I reread some Benchley pieces:

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"I will quote from a noted authority on non-existent cities"

***

Did you know that.... The reason why it always says "twenty minutes past eight" on those big watches that hang outside jewelers' shops is because that is actually the time at the particular moment when you are looking at it?

[I don't recall knowing about the 8:20 alternative to the classic 10:10. It's a logical inversion, of course. But I wonder if 10:10 supplanted 8:20, or whether they coexisted for a time... Is 8:20 "the pessimist's 10:10"?]

***

The “O” in the name “Ogden” has four concentric circles in connection with it, as if the writer had got going and couldn’t stop. A valuable item for collectors of unusual letter “O’s.”

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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #music #drop the beat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #giant #spooky #forest #elephant #haunted forest #woods #bear #lost in the woods
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #shoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #giant #hell #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1929.
*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 #rainbow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Icarus in leopard-skin.  From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #biplane #winged man #illustration #icarus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I am the great serpent."  From Fairy Tales from Folk Lore by Wilbur Herschel Williams, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #native american #first nation #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration #neutrality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #record player #siren song
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Something was just disappearing into the passage."  From Pearson's, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted house #spooky #walking dead #horror #phantom #zombie #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #walking stick #illustration #art #cane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy who Believed in Human Beings, written and illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #fountain #soap bubble #illustration #fairy fountain #bubble
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #pan pipes #blue devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #sword #handshake #dagger #mistrust
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #france #ship hair #french fashion #hat #vintage hair #vintage france #ship wig #elaborate hairdo #fancy hair #ship hat #hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #big mouth #boneyard #giants #giant skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #turtle #tortoise #lol
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September 15, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage illustration #occult #harpy #spiritualism #seance #spiritism #hybrid #table tipping #human headed #bird men #half bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's how to teach the Pythagorean theorem to bovine people.  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #animal headed #hybrid #Pythagorean theorem #bull headed #cow headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #candle #royalty #armor #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #pitchfork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A stand up owl.  From Primary Education, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #open grave #corpse eater #necrophage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #bird costume #costume #dove of peace #illustration #peace dove #dove costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1929.
Previously, we saw spaghetti as proof of infinity.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A poor scan from Harper's Young People, 1888
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Big Book of Fairy Tales, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #tom thumb #giant fish #swallowed alive #illustration #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #macabre #death #skull #bowling #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #smoker #water pipe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl in His House by Harold MacGrath, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #gun #burglar #armed woman #illustration #woman with gun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #earrings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #eating brains #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1896.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A palm reader from Le Journal Amusant, 1932.
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Old News (permalink)
"Are women becoming more fascinating?"  From The Judge, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #cauldron #spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Though this illustration is making fun of a drunk who mistakes a crack in the wall for his key hole, you never know what you might unlock when you place a skeleton key into crevice.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton key #keyhole #drunk #1900s
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September 14, 2018

What I Now Know (permalink)
"What I now know to be true is that not everything that looks good on the outside is working well on the inside."

—Glenora Wells-Sanders, To Quierra, On Life

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #quill pen #inkwell #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #transvestism #man in a dress #cross dressing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #war dead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #cartomancy #card reader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #faces in things #drunk #mice #hallucination #illustration
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

From Fliegende Blätter, 1931.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Easy Money by Bertram Atkey, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #strange light #illustration #holding light
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The visit of the shadow."  From Fairy Tales and Stories, translated by H. W. Dulcken, 1882.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #horse #danger #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A spirit photo from Shadow Land or Light from the Other Side by E. d' Espérance. 1897.
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#ghost #spiritualism #spirit photography #spirit photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley, 1833.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mermaid #alcohol #sloshed #illustration #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #apples #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1932.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #tornado #wind #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #mobile home #house on wheels #tiny house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #in one ear #empty head #air head #brainless
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Great Black Kanba, by Constance and Gwenyth Little:

***

[The protagonist, who is suffering from amnesia, catches herself in the middle of a whimsical ramble.]

I stopped short and thought wildly that not only had I lost my memory but I'd gone a bit silly too. Or maybe I was naturally silly--I had no way of knowing.

***

"You know as well as I do that Mavis would keep that sort of appointment if the man were snowed in with white whiskers."

***

"Come on, Virgineeah."

"You'd better call me Ginny," I said, getting to my feet. "You can't play around with it so much."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Peace in boots.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #peace #boots
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September 13, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #native american #native art #headdress #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #deity #god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #piggyback #piggy back ride
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Charrette Charrie, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face #musician #art
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #1920s #rude awakening #dizzy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
It's growing: my collection of vintage beards.
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#vintage illustration #beard #knife #serrated #jagged edge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #root vegetables #carrot #beet #mired
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #drowning #save yourself #long hair #illustration #long braid #pull yourself up
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A bright future."  From Over the Hookah by George Frank Lydston, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hellfire #hell #torment #naked man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fish people #illustration #sardines
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From El Tío Clarín, c. 1867.  Courtesy of the Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #funnel
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Rhetorical Answers, Questioned (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
"When the parson came out of the church, the lad asked him what it all meant."  From Fairy Tales from the Far North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1897.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #parson #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Upon the Altar of Things are made, oft-times, strange sacrifices."  From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne, 1909.
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#incomprehensible #strange sacrifice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #illustration #horned #bullfighter #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #cat #puss in boots #boot #cat and mouse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #castle #knight #imagination #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #hunter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #big hat #ostrich
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #masquerade #drunk #after the party
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September 12, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Svobodnyi Smekh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #human headed #cello #musician #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #death #skull #beelzebub #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #clown #circus #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #frogs #illustration #garden hose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Coup de Fouet, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #lantern #dark and light #goat legged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #cemetery #skeleton #graveyard #skull #decapitated
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"I am THE Loneliness: God is Loneliness, and Loneliness God."  From The Idler, 1894.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #loneliness #god #the sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #faces in things #musician #hitler guitar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"That misty cloudlet in the mirror--those fearful eyes!"  From The Strand, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #mirror #haunted mirror #man in the mirror #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There's different math on this: Death Has Ten Thousand Doors according to Bridget Chetwynd.  But Death Has a Thousand Doors according to Melba Marlett.  (Book cover via 54mge.)
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#death #mystery novel #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #occult #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #demon #merman #well #spitting #illustration #vomit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #sheet ghost #illustration #singing ghosts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley, 1833.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #king #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #gambling #roulette #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #caveman #illustration #prehistoric #walk the dinosaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #animals #lion #deer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fonar', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #merfolk #merman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #shield #fig leaf
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September 11, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #handstand #harbor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Giant Thunderthump."  From Dealings with the Fairies by George Macdonald, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #art
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1954.
*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 #pigs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #goat #horse cart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #pandemonium
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #whale #dolphin #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #stacked animals #bremen town musicians
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Ulk, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #sun #staring at the sun #illustration #dawn of a new day
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #windy day #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Destroyer by H. Hetherington, 1842.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #knight #illustration #menorah #seven candles #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #cow #train #locomotive #train cow #cow train
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#religion #vintage illustration #japanese #vintage japan #japan #binoculars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #demon #pitchfork #hell #damned #torment
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #hunter #1900s #disguise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #genie #spirit #keyhole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #zoo #human zoo
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Murder of a Quack, by George Bellairs:

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[Anthropomorphized Grandfather Clock dept.]

All was silent inside, save for the heavy ticking of the grandfather clock in the hall. This wheezily worked itself up for an effort, struck eight and sank into exhausted quietness once more.

***

[We liked this joke in the last book, so Mr Bellairs is giving it to us again.]

"Hey, grandpa, ye'll be meetin' yerself comin' back if ye bustle like that," shouted one of the idlers.

***

"Maybe it'll turn out to be suicide, after all," said a meek man, baring his yellow teeth in a smile and patting his bald pate as though either blessing himself or stimulating his brains to activity.

***

She was a little, thin woman, with ... a nose and mouth so small that a caricaturist would have passed them off with a tick and a dot of his pencil.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #mushroom people #mushrooms
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Old News (permalink)
"Outside of murder nothing happened."  From The Judge, 1921.
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#murder #weird headline #vintage headline #headline
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September 10, 2018

Old News (permalink)
"The lady who wouldn't say 'oh!'"  From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage headline #headline
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The Right Word (permalink)

Gordon, of Bizarre Chicago fame, revealed that he read our Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words from cover to cover!
I'm not generally the kind of writer who reads dictionaries cover to cover. But I couldn't put this one down. This dictionary reminds you that not only is language a living, changing, entity -- it's also creative and powerful and personal. Just a few pages of this book will encourage you to lighten up and bravely approach your own prose.
Thank you, Gordon — your review made our day!
Collecting as it does hundreds and hundreds of all-vowel and all-consonant words from literature, Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words is a word gamer's secret weapon.  Pioneering lexicographer Noah Webster published his first Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806.  He spent decade after decade expanding his dictionary to make it more comprehensive.  Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words is a testament to the great wordsmith’s dedication.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #where babies come from #miracle of birth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #skull face #crow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #holding hands #vintage frame
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #death #haunted mansion #skeleton #piano #pianist #piano player
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss in Boots by Julia Corner and illustrated by Harrison Weir, 1854.   See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #puss in boots #ogre #cat clothes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #october #wolfman #werewolf #hallowe'en #i was a teenage werewolf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #horror #spider web #caught in a web #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #giant #father time #cannibalism #tiny man #illustration #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #pain #headache #migraine #torment #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Serbian Fairy Tales by Elodie L. Mijatovich and illustrated by Sidney Stanley, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #goat #illustration #onward #going forward
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #sleeping #illustration #japanese man #olympics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Shadow form."  From Shadow Land or Light from the Other Side by E. d' Espérance. 1897.
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#ghost #spiritualism #spirit photography #spirit photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You may recall that "Nulli Secundus" ("second to none") was the name of British Army Dirigible No. 1 (the nation's first powered military aircraft), that flew on September 10, 1907.  From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #dirigible #illustration #blimp #nulli secundus #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #gynmastics #calisthenics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #antisocial #inventions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's what happens to lost mail.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #monster #1900s #lost mail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Burelom, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #tree face #tree spirits
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #inflatable #fat man #pumped up
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September 9, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alcohol #giant bottle #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Vultures of peace.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #war #vulture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #satyr #faun #wrestling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #winter #wolves #white wolf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #occult #bats #alchemist #occultist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Woodcut by Wharton H. Esherick.  From Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk by Mary Marcy, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #illustration #animals and people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Adventures of Alice by John Rae, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #faces in things #dark clouds #danger sign #illustration #crack in the ice #sign
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #hallucination #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
Spirit writing that manifested under an inverted tumbler, wishing that your husband had been here.  From 'Twixt Two Worlds by John Stephen Farmer, 1886.
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#spirit writing #spiritualism #seance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The stone had now completely assumed the form of a man."  From The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley, 1833.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #statue #living statue #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #birds #light and dark #blackbirds #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pearl Fountain by Bridget Kavanagh & Julia Kavanagh and illustrated by J. Moyr Smith, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #fountain #illustration #fairy fountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #money #illustration #strangled
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's why some folks resist revising their work.  From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #revision
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When I'm tired, send me home."  From The Judge, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #hunting dog #bloodhound
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He has no eyes.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #no eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #heater #furnace
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Voices Offstage, by Marc Connelly:

***

The picture [a serial] was called The Great Secret.... I never found out what the great secret was and I don't think anyone else working on the picture knew either.

***

[a Retroactive Lifetime Goal?]

...Jack Donohue, a droll comedian regarded by Ray Bolger as America's greatest eccentric dancer....

***

[Bonus: I recently reread a Benchley piece about informal group singing at parties, in which he notes that "Kiss Me Again" is a favorite because you can pretty much get through it by singing those three words over and over, if you're shaky on the actual lyrics. A few days later, reading this memoir by Benchley's colleague Connelly, I learned that the actual lyrics to KMA were, according to MC, mostly "dummy lyrics"--i.e., the lyricist's placeholder lyrics, which were unexpectedly used in the song's public debut performance because the lyricist had been suddenly taken ill and was temporarily unavailable to substitute "real" lyrics. The song went so smoothly, according to MC, that consequently only "two or three minor words" were altered for the official lyrics.]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #two headed #hypnotist #1890s #hypnosis #siamese twins #conjoined
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September 8, 2018

Nonsense Dept. (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt shares this bit from a piece called “What Does It Mean?” in which Benchley pokes fun at overanalytical attempts to Aread serious meanings into humorous writing:

"Why monkey around with Nonsense? It can stand well enough on its own feet."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #money #gold #snake charmer #gold coins
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Every indecency of line must be avoided.  Art should be the phantasy of geometry."  From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #geometry #modern art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #father time #scythe #1920s #no man's land
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #floodgate
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
A true hazard of archival work is the stink.  From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #hold your nose #archival #stench #stinks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Gustave Doré.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #horror #Gustave Dore #spiders #gustave doré
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #mermaid #nymph #water nymph #lily pad #lily pond #water creature
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #redhead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1919.
Have they arranged their seance correctly?  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #seance #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales from the Harz Mountains by Alfred Cooper Fryer, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dwarf #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dorothy has the feeling she's not in Kansas anymore.  From Jugend, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #toto #little dog #vintage car #car #illustration #stranded #not in kansas
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #pied piper #illustration #clothing
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Yolande as she appeared when materialised."  From Shadow Land or Light from the Other Side by E. d' Espérance. 1897.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #spiritualism #spirit photography #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Selection from the Norse Tales by G. W. Dasent, 1862.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horses #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #star #hypnotist #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #sportsman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #monster #giant dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I don't want to."  From c. 1906, via Don's Up North Memories.
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#vintage illustration #crying #vintage postcard #tears #i would prefer not to #don't want to #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #death #anthropomorphism #animals
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September 7, 2018

What I Now Know (permalink)

"What I didn't think, and what I now know to be true, was that I was slipping deeper and deeper into the trap."

—Eddy L. Harris, Still Life in Harlem

 

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #tiny men
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Stuttering Bishop, by Erle Stanley Gardner:

***

"And," she told him, "I take it the plot thickens?"

Mason frowned and said, "Yes, it thickens like the gravy I made on my last camping trip—all in a bunch of lumps, which don't seem to be smoothing out."

She laughed up at him and said, "Did you apologize for the gravy, Chief?"

"Hell, no!" he told her. "I told the boys that it was the latest thing out, something I'd learned from the chef in a famous New York restaurant; that it was Thousand-Island Gravy."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull face #spooky #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #wizard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I want to censor all the papers, and magazines and books."  From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #censorship #censor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #spirits #full moon #water spirit #will-o'-the-wisp #marsh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A sea lion levitates a ball.  From Pearson's, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #levitation #illustration #seal #sea lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #pipe smoker #up to the neck #submerged #high tide #high water #neck deep #in too deep #immersed #flooding #flooded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #under the sea #sea fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #dog #people who look like their dogs
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Puritan, 1900.
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#vintage photo #cats #feeding animals
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #horse #dreaming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #temptation #drinking #abstinence #alcohol #teetotalism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales from the Far North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #illustration #cradle #crib death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When I opened my eyes they were enjoying a dance."  From Autumn Leaves by Christie Crust, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #moonlight #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #pet walker #dog bite #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Laughed at by animals.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #animals #laughing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #punishment #hymnal
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September 6, 2018

Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
"'May your nonexistence be so strong that it becomes a form of being,' says @prof.oddfellow. Who, not only has the secret to eternal youth, but whose presence cannot be detected by arcade fortune telling machines. Unsurprisingly his likeness was difficult to capture in paint. I think I've done it, or have I?" asks artist Clare Simmonds.
A: It's been said that an ideal portrait depicts its subject as solitary and somewhat mysterious.  "The ideal portrait should, of course, be at once a presentment of a human being grasped with perspicacity and commemorated with easy mastery, and a picture whose forms, balance, colour, and lighting form a whole that gives pleasure and satisfaction, whether the original be known or not" (E. H., 1901).  We see this portrait as a painted premonition.  The expression perfectly captures the experience of a "funny feeling."  There are zero Google results for how much an aura weighs, but we detect a slight stoop to the figure in the portrait.  It's been said that "psychic weight" is something imponderable and that it comes from opening the body to grief, turning one's face to one's own life, absorbing the failures one's parents and homeland have suffered, and handling what alchemy calls "lead."  With this portrait, you've transmuted the lead to gold.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #bird #singing #squawk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #headache #migraine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

"The trope—the violin as heaven's instrument of choice—has been a cultural perennial since Monteverdi" (David Schoenbaum, The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument, 2013).  Our illustration is from Lustige Blätter, 1906.

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#vintage illustration #violin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fonar', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #lantern
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #punchinello #faces in things #costume #carnival
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Charrette Charrie, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #undead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #chickens #chicken coop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #dog #footprints #bloodhound
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #train #contortionist #yoga #illustration #bending over backwards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #devil horns #illustration #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales from the Far North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #rats #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #dogma #priest #garrote #illustration #strangled #choked #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #bear #headache #illustration #red bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #dog #train #locomotive #pursued #run for your life #outrunning
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
"None of those swarming millions saw the godlike shape that hovered over them—none could—."  From Astounding Stories, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #sphere #fantastical #gem #1930s #glowing #godlike
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children of Elfland by Fanny J. Paul, 18--.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bear #illustration
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September 5, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #contortionist #conductor #bending over backward
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #carriage #funeral #hearse #horse drawn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #poison #alchemy #bottled ghost #distillation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frogs #lily pad #frog king #art
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Use an ellipsis and then four asterisks to tactfully change the subject.  From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #asterisk #ellipsis #change the subject
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #guillotine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #transportation #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #angel #trumpet #illustration #angelic visitation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #devil #witch #walpurgisnacht #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Medium and materialised spirit photographed together.  The medium is shielding her eyes from the effect of the magnesium light."  From Shadow Land or Light from the Other Side by E. d' Espérance. 1897.
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#spiritualism #seance #spirit medium #spirit photography #spirit photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales from the Far North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1897.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #fairy tale #tiny woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #giant book #light and dark #illustration #torch #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Driven incurably mad by advertising.  From The Judge, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #advertising #insanity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Summoned a genie of a gigantic stature."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #giant #genie #djinn #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #monster #beast #man headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #bull #bull fighter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Boloto, 1905.
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September 4, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Swallowing the dictionary."  For an appetizer, see the dictionary of one-letter words.  From Wide Awake, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #book #dictionary #eating a book #book eating #eating a dictionary #devouring language
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #trumpet #musician
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the film Devil's Dominoes.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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Old News (permalink)
"Will the dill pickle ever come back?"  From The Judge, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #severed head #guillotine #decapitated #pirates of the caribbean #dead pirate #skeleton pirate
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #nest #frog #bird #bridge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #card reader #consulting
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The New Outlook for the Blind, 1919.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to flex his muscles. From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1933
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#vintage illustration #illustration #muscles #gif #flexing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #illustration #house train
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #vintage car #car #illustration #turn signal #automobile
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Death!' shrieked Mrs. Thayer, and then she fell back lifeless."  From The Somnambulist and the Detective, The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton, 1874.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'If you don't be quiet,' shouted the lad to the troll, "I'll squeeze you just as I squeeze the water out of this stone."  From Fairy Tales from the Far North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #bird #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #lion tamer #lion #zoo #vintage magazine #lion cage #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fonar', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #death #blackbird #skull and crossbones #blood #hearse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #earth #anthropomorphism #comet #faces in things #shooting star #falling star
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #musical animal #seals
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From No Mourning for the Matador, by Delano Ames:

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[Spoken of a pianist] "They said he was a second McCormack [who was apparently a notable tenor], or do I mean Kreisler [who was apparently a violinist]?"

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[Misquoting a reference to death as "the long siesta"] "With our own darling Denis just setting forth on what the newspaper so beautifully said--the long fiesta."

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A shock awaited us in the garage: our car was ready.

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"You'd laugh at me Jane, wouldn't you, if I told you I'd fallen fairly passionately in love? With you, I think."

"I'll laugh at you when you've made up your mind," I promised.

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In between snacks he begged me to accept things like "the desire of the moth for the star" or "devotion to something afar." Though I indicated that I would gladly settle for the latter, he stuck close to us to the bitter end.

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Sir Jasper was surveying the place with an air of superiority though his eyeglass. Without it he would probably have seen us sooner.

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I know Dagobert rather well, and, though I frequently don't understand him when he's talking, I can almost always interpret his silences.

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The road, I remembered, was a series of switchbacks; in the daytime it looked like a badly tied shoelace.

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September 3, 2018

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, conduct the radiance.  From the University of Virginia's Corks and Curls yearbook, 1915.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #occult #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light body #conductor #manifestation #bioluminescence #light being #radiance
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The Right Word (permalink)

Professor and novelist John Pistelli, author of Portraits and Ashes, honored and delighted us with this insightful review of Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words:
Is a dictionary a guidebook or a rulebook? Does it tell you where you can go or what you should do? In this fascinating compendium of improbable words comprised either entirely of consonants or entirely of vowels, Craig Conley takes guidebook lexicography (or descriptivism) to an extreme that is comic and informative in succession. "Comic" because it is at first amusing to read a dictionary with entries like "oooooo ooooo" ("a wail of wanton depravity") or "whrr" ("an emphatic spoken by a rat"). Yet it soon becomes clear that Conley is after more than jokes: like the OED, his Dictionary of Improbable Words generously quotes published instances of usage, which leads the book to read like a tribute to literary creativity in domains from video games and comics to classical and experimental fiction to straightforward ornithology—any type of writing whose authors were not satisfied with the words in the standard dictionaries and had to devise their own representations of how the world sounds ("trrt-trrt," "mm," "brrrm," etc.). As such, Conley's dictionary may be used as a rulebook for writers in search of elegant and inventive onomatopoeia for purposes ranging from the whimsical to the scientific. Conley also, by the way, reveals that the world contains more rivers, streams, and towns with all-vowel names than you might expect, and in that way his intriguing lexicon approaches the status of a literal guidebook!
The new Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words collects hundreds and hundreds of all-vowel and all-consonant words from literature.  It's a word gamer's secret weapon.  Pioneering lexicographer Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) published his first Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806.  He spent decade after decade expanding his dictionary to make it more comprehensive.  Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words is a testament to the great wordsmith’s dedication.
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
From The Shoe Workers' Journal, 1908.  The text reads, "The old question—'will wonders never cease?'—is becoming understood as a definite declaration that wonders never will cease.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Both she and the cat have such lovely expressions.  From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 1899.
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#cat #folk tale #pamela colman smith
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #garden of eden #adam and eve #juggler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goat #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #dance of death #dancing skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #brutalism #cubism #modern architecture
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #stuck in the mud #vintage car #car #stranded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Distaff and Spindle by Mary Ashley Townsend, 1895.
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#vintage book #book #spinning #spindle #distaff
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Alexander Chodźko, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #giant hands #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #tree #mountain #illustration #art #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Fortuneteller by Louisa Lawford, 1861.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #hybrid #human headed
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #sea serpent #sea monster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #merlin #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #whirling #spinning #eek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #silhouette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A clown in hell.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #hell #clown #pierrot
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September 2, 2018

What's In a Name (permalink)
The implication of this book title, Cat Spelled Backwards Doesn't Spell God, is that D-O-G spelled backwards is God.  Yet contrary to common belief, that's wrong.  "No, I don’t think that Dog is God spelled backwards" says Roberta Lee, DD., PhD., ND.  Plus, keep in mind that "a word spelled backwards is not a name, and furthermore, if it's a wonderful word spelled backwards, does that [not] imply that the name is the opposite of the wonderful word?  Don't do this" (Duana Taha, The Name Therapist, 2016).
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#cat #dog spelled backwards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's centaur with submarines stuck in his hooves.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #ichthyocentaur
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Stretch Armstrong toy.  From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #long legs #long arms #stretch armstrong #india rubber man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #drowning #horror #flood #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #prisoner #in chains #body painting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #kite flying #goat #kite #go fly a kite
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Is nature suicidal?  From Accepting the Universe by John Burroughs, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do you chafe?  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #chafing #big baby #chafe #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration #voting #ballot #national animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swedish Fairy Tales by Frithjuv Berg, 1907.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Dreams by Jane Goodwin Austin, 1859.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fairy queen #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Am, A Novel of Psychotherapy by Florence Edythe Blake-Hedges, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #priest #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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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#religion #vintage illustration #monk #cannon #religious war #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #political cartoon #harpy #human headed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Playing mind games with the sphinx.  From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #sphinx #mind games #art
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Life magazine, via The Judge, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #adjectives #big words #illustration #woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #dandy
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Cautious Coquette, by ESG:

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The man had an almost dreamy air of abstraction, as though his mind, immersed in books, had somehow become imprisoned between the printed covers of some text book and had failed to emerge.

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"That stall about the stolen car is two years older than Moses. In addition to which, it stinks."

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[From The Case of the Fiery Fingers, by Erle Stanley Gardner]:

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“Wait a minute,” Mason said. “You’re getting several carts in front of one horse.”

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #spiritualism #seance #table tipping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's how to use a haunted painting to practice the old table cloth trick, in which the dishes remain on the table when you yank the cloth away (if performed properly, of course).  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting #tablecloth trick
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September 1, 2018

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The introduction to Puffs and Mysteries (a.k.a. A. B. Has Returned, 1855) is addressed to the "mythical multitude of readers," since few ever read prefatory matter.  "What no one thinks of reading is of course beyond criticism," so the author safely fills paper while going to very little trouble.
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#author's note
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
One of these ladies is wearing an imposter designer label.  (Insert your own "fake news" joke.  Having earned a degree in journalism, we bemoan the current degradation of the media.  Granted, the press has never in history truly been free; it has always been a propaganda engine, but traditionally there was at least a pretense of objectivity.  As La Rochefoucauld famously said, "hypocrisy is a tribute vice pays to virtue."  Now it's bare-faced bias.  Disgusting!)  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #fake news #newspaper dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #warrior
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The happy hour special is a "Blood and Tears" cocktail.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper #bartender #cocktail #1900s #happy hour #alcohol poisoning #just kill me #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 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 #faces in things #fountain #dancing waters #water shapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #demon #devil #satan #death #grim reaper #outer space #explosive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crown #clown #charlie chaplin #sledgehammer #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #ancient egypt #egyptian #tiny man #strangled
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 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 #dragon #long dress #illustration #smoker #dragon lady #dragon woman #domestic dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #illustration #naturist #public nudity #nudist #naturalism
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Jugend, 1928.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #incubus #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Ulk, 1921.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #windy day
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't you be afraid of me."  From Fairy Tales from the Far North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #homunculus #creatures #easter #golem #illustration #eggs #figures #taffy butt #homunculi #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #giant hand #hand of god #industry #illustration #pollution #factory #smokestack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #avalanche
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sometimes one doesn't see the "elephant in the room" because it's over in the corner.  From Lustige Blätter, 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 #elephant #elephant in the room
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The love that caught strange light from death's own eyes" —Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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#death #strange light #love #swinburne
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #polar bear #bear #alcohol #white bear #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #ladder #specimen jar
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