CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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September 30, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We're pleased to offer a vital tool for our fellow authors: a hi-res recreation of a disclaimer proclaiming that anyone who doesn't like the book is a jackass.  
The original is from the University of Montana's 1916 yearbook.  Please feel free to download and use our recreation to bring peace of mind to all your future publications.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jackass #writers #authors
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to "Sunglasses at Night."
From Nebelspalter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #clock #night #sunglasses at night
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of Nebraska's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Fairy-Tale Foxes by Clifton Johnson and illustrated by Frank A. Nankivell, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Motor, vital, and mental temperaments.  From Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #head shapes #temperaments
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Old News (permalink)
Who Lifted the Lid Off of Hell? by Elbert Hubbard, 1914.
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Columbia's College of Pharmacy yearbook of 1932.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you can relate.  An illustration by Trier.  From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat #animal attack #lobster #can't catch a break
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Love the conqueror."  From Cosmopolitan (1893).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cupid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The snob."  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #anthropomorphism #top hat #hot air #hot air balloon #snob
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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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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #music notation #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #satyr #reading #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #nihilism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #masquerade #fish costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #silhouette #clown #tightrope #l b
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #man in bed #someone at the door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From An Old Fairy Tale, The Sleeping Beauty by Richard Doyle and J. R. Planche and illustrated by the Brothers Dalziel, 1868.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #sleeping beauty
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September 29, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare to see a snowman with a torch, lighting a bonfire.  From Nebelspalter, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #snowman #mars #bonfire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh, oh!  He's seen us!  He's here!  Hide your hands!"  From The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood and illustrated by W. Graham Robertson, 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 #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #serpent #occult #snake #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scimitar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Volshebnyi Fonar', 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 #anthropomorphism #frog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pchela, 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 #octopus #tentacles #tentacle porn
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
When the boat has eyes, bat wings, and shouded figures aboard, double check your ticket and make sure you're on the right pier.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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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 #grim reaper #spooky #ominous #faces in things #boat #charon #styx #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 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 #death #angel #skeleton #dragged to hell #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #rooster #winged man #anti religion #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #vulture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #butterfly #grasshopper #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse #horsepower #chair on wheels #wheelchair #motorized chair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Evansville yearbook of 1970.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #one-man band #seven arms
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A restoration of an image from The Entheogen Review Complete.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horned #tribal art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #priest #illustration #lips are sealed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #spinning top
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Keep your eye upon the donut and not upon the hole."  From Elizabethtown's 1971 yearbook.
Previously, we compared the weight of a fresh donught hole to a dessicated donut hole.  Here are the suprising results.

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

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#hole #negative space #vintage yearbook #yearbook #graffiti #donut #hole in the wall
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The hen, the dove, and the mouse go for a ride.  From A Book of Fairy-Tale Foxes by Clifton Johnson and illustrated by Frank A. Nankivell, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dove #fox #mouse #hen #stacked animals
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September 28, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #lighthouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Though this photograph may induce out-of-body experiences, be wary of trying any of the side doors.  From Elizabethtown's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmogonie Humaine, 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 diagram #hand #fetus #diagram #cosmogony #palm
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#midnight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1948 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat legged #horned
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
The sea monster's tentacled mustache.  From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1906.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #tentacles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1878.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fire #immolation #on fire #flames #queen #burned alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #dance of death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #question mark #vintage magazine #magazine #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #blindfold #tiny man #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #monkey #false nose
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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, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #cathedral #etching
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1939.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #father time #faces in things #clock #grandfather clock #youth and age #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #demon #pitchfork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Little round and crystal sphere / Show us, show us true and clear."  From the State Teachers College at Boston yearbook of 1955.

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#vintage illustration #divination #wizard #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fortune telling
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September 27, 2019

Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
Here's a precusor to the 1933 film Gambling Ship.  From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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Old News (permalink)
Demons technically couldn’t have invented jazz, since jazz has never existed (Stephen Longstreet, The Real Jazz, Old and New, 1969).  (Demon headline via Yesterday's Print.)
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#demon #vintage headline #jazz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The more Cupids it takes to bind a couple together, the higher the chances that the union won't endure.  From Duke's 1918 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
My sincerest wish for you -- may you escape the invisible bears.  From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #oz #rickshaw
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We did a careful scan of this image, and not only is it blessed, but it will also mitigate the effects of a curse.  From Le Charivari, 1887.
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Old News (permalink)
"You're welcome to the moon."  From The Link, 1957.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Scotland Yard Can Wait, by David Frome:

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His employer wore an eyeglass on a very wide ribbon, and looked, always, precisely as if he hadn't the foggiest notion what it was all about.

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The dentist's legs are an upper jaw.  From Tulane's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teeth #dentist #tooth #dental work #extraction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Will-O'-the-Wisps Are In Town by H. C. Andersen and illustrated by F. Eltze and Swain, 1967.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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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 monster #shipwreck #under the sea #sunken
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1906.
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#human headed #musician #organist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #king #severed head #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #magician #levitation #vintage magic #weightless #magic trick #parlor magic #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hands across the ocean #dismembered
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #crown #vintage car #car #bling #toy car
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to trigger a flash of insight. From the Evansville yearbook of 1982.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The step-sister cuts off her toe."  From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916.  
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cinderella #knife #ugly step-sister #wicked step-sister
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Like something out of a Japanese horror film, these blurry-faced cheerleaders haunt the UC Southern Branch yearbook of 1959.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #blurred #faceless #no face #cheerleader #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
I made a countenance as if I would eat him alive."  From Gulliver's Travels.
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#vintage illustration #giant #gulliver's travels #tiny man #eaten alive
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September 26, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)
Nearly forgotten today -- the chemical composition of a halo.  From Johns Hopkins' 1895 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #chemistry #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #undertaker #art
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #good and evil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #weightless #leaning in #lunge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #monster #evil spirit #pollution #giant vulture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If the moon is too bright, put your coat over it.  From Judge's Library, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #spaceship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #crushed #big book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #letter cubes #letter dice #cube head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The American Legion Weekly, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #giant #fairy tale #jello #jack and the beanstalk #beanstalk #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #leap of faith
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How long have you been dead?"  From The Bottle Maker, 1921.
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#mummy #vintage illustration #egyptian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #communication
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #scythe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
So few faces in yearbooks are even real.  From the Mississippi Delta Junior College yearbook of 1976.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #alcohol
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
You know of "secondhand smoke," but what's rarely acknowledged is that the second hand is one's shadow's.  From Northeastern's 1925 yearbook. 
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#vintage illustration #smoking #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #golf #illustration #smoker #secondhand smoke
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #bearded lady #women with facial hair
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September 25, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to David Lynch's comic strip "The Angriest Dog in the World," about a dog "so angry he cannot move; he cannot eat; he cannot sleep; he can just barely growl; bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis."  This vintage angriest dog appears in Johns Hopkins' 1895 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #angriest dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From An Old Fairy Tale: The Sleeping Beauty by Richard Doyle and J. R. Planche and illustrated by the Brothers Dalziel, 1868.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #princess #illustration #talking fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts #seance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Rhode Island yearbook of 1903.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insect #bug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #dancing #pear #giant pear #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The "economichthyosaurus" is a Googlewhack.  From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #vintage yearbook #yearbook #economics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
In the ghost-hunting community, this mournful spirit is known as "Our Lady of the Spoons of Damocles."  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1970 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window display
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He followed her into the tree."  From The Enchanted Bird by Antoinette Decoursey Patterson and illustrated by Elizabeth Pilsbry, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #crone #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1937 yearbook.
Poseidon's sea serpent appears in the next panel.
Cassiopeia figures into the previous panel.
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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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #nymphs #sea nymph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magazine of Horror, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #skull #horror #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We checked, and it turns out to be true -- happiness is, indeed, an overhead projector, and as this technology becomes increasingly obsolete, sadness spreads across the globe.  From Wake Forest's 1975 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you ride a budget turtle or sometimes go out in your shell.  From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #book lover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Foolish Almanak, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I am naughty."  From Colorado College's Nugget yearbook of 1954.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #naughty #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Like caterpillars spinning wombs out of sunlight, so are the days of our lives.  (By the way -- notice the tree bark -- dozens and dozens of caterpillars are inching their ways up the trees!)  From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As a general rule, never hold your marotte upside down in front of a giant skull with a sword piercing one eye.  An ounce of prevention and so on.  From Tulane's 1896 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A ghost toast.  From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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September 24, 2019

Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922. One can also control the weather with the Cloud-Busting app we developed.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#cloud
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #long hair #pulling hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1909 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #palm reader #palmistry #chiromancy
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Musubi Murder, by Frankie Bow:

***

"What kine baboozes they got working up there in security?"

"Officer Medeiros has been nothing but professional," I said. "I don't think it's nice to call him a...whatever you called him."

***

"You, a professor, don't even have a proper office chair. You sacrifice your dignity every day by sitting on a yoga ball."

"My dignity is very well toned from sitting on that ball, I'll have you know."

***

"A very good salary"....

I involuntarily rolled my chair back when Iker told me the number, as if I were making room for a dump truck load of cash.

***

"You're being ridiculous! Ridiculously blinded by lust!"

"Now wait a--"

"What were you thinking about, eating that meat?" [N.B. That's literal meat.]

"That wasn't lust," I said. "That was gluttony."

***

"So maybe he steals his brother’s artifact out of jealousy, or pride, or, you know, anger."

"You forgot lust and gluttony."

***

"I'm going to spell it out for you. One: Jimmy Tanaka was going to ruin Donnie Gonsalves. Two--"

"That's counting, not spelling."

***

"Did you sell out for the money?"

"Of course I did! Why else would you sell out? It's called 'selling out' because you do it for the money."

***

"Locus of control....A locust is an insect.  Why do I have to explain that every time?"

***

[Bonus golden-goose business]:


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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #clouds #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Fairy-Tale Foxes by Clifton Johnson and illustrated by Frank A. Nankivell, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #animals #sled #rabbit #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Special Activities for Very Special Children, 1972.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #telescope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #witch #owl #animal familiar #frog #blindfolded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #telephone #1910s
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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, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #illustration #light and shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #masks #faces #big hat #illustration
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
You've heard that "At dawn the sun fights for its life" (Astronomy, The Splendor of the Heavens Brought Down to Earth by Arthur McCracken Harding, 1935).  Here's what it looks like.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #sun
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used for recalling a forgotten memory.  From Virginia Commonwealth University's 1970 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The indifference of some men is simply beyond belief."  From Life (1903).
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#vintage illustration #cupid #confirmed bachelor #gay innuendo #indifference #st. sebastian
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September 23, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Victory Over Death" -- the most popular elective class after Music Appreciation.  From East Carolina's 1942 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #immortality
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We, too, believe in the ellipsis.  From I Believe In ... by Norman Snaith, 1949.  See Annotated Ellipses.
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#vintage book #book #ellipsis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1910.  Though the secrets of how to be a human-headed serpent locomotive are closely guarded, the secrets of transforming into a lion person are now revealed: How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #train #hybrid #human headed #cat people #illustration #lion man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The autumn fairy.  From Montreat's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #autumn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #snail #illustration
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
We get this sun where we live, too.  A parasol isn't even optional.  From Elizabethtown's 1971 yearbook.
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#sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Everything gets topsy-turvy."  From The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #mayhem #boat #topsy turvy
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Old News (permalink)
Finally, a headline we can believe.  "Foods are from around the world."  From Stoutiana, 1916.
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#vintage headline #food #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pyramid #mayan #fire circle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"High life."  From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #in the clouds
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Southwestern's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #darkness and light
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sprut, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #earth #outer space #moon #earthrise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #demon #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #spitting #waiter
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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, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fire spirit #spirit #firebird #illustration #ghost bird #barn #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #melting building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Best flying horse-piano we've seen all day.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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September 22, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
“Haunted houses were the quietest of all, until the ghost walked.“ —Gene Wolfe, Nightshade of the Long Sun
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#haunted house #ghost
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
If you could use a hand, here's one.  From Here's a Hand by Wallace Bruce, 1892.
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#hand #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Can it be true, as the caption states, that "We all live in a women's dorm?"  We subjected this statement to our usual battery of stringent tests, and it turns out that yes, in a way, we all really do live in a women's dorm.  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#mirror #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When they came closer, they saw that it was the same old black sheep." From The Peter Newell Mother Goose, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #black sheep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #eaten alive
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
A Page of Swords from Swarthmore's 1932 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #mountains #yearbook #tarot #page of swords
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
James Ensor's "Self Portrait with Demons," 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Chocolate pie!  From The Nation's Health, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sweet tooth #dessert #chocolate #vintage man #man #chocolate pie #smiling man #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Ellendale yearbook of 1912.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #literature #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"Devil's delight" priestesses and a fire ritual, both on the newspaper's front page.  From Stoutiana, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a flying train by Trier, in Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #flying train #lol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that the world of chess is more than simply wooden pieces and wooden problems.  From Virginia Commonwealth University's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #chess #men #chess club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #puppet #war and peace #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Zoom in on the image to see how the leaves on the trees are tiny skulls, and that tiny skulls litter the ground as well.  From Svetaet, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #skull #gravestone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #pope #on top of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #hand of god #fist #green hand
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #flying bicycle #winged bicycle #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #windy day #beachwear #tidal wave
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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September 21, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

The truth is that …

  • even granite changes over time.
  • if it were easy, everyone would do it.
  • life itself is music.
  • I was never that girl in the hallway.
  • learning to laugh at yourself can help you.
  • there is no "right" age for being who you are.
  • there are so few who know where Burma is.
  • a journey is an extension of the human personality.
  • our body is in many ways like a robot.
  • none of us has reached that exalted position of perfection.
  • mind and matter are complementary to each other.
  • sometimes what is supposed to be observable is lost in our focus on the flame.
  • there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else.
  • your death would be something to fear only if you could survive it.
  • teams often create negative synergy.
  • it is okay for one or a few people to pee in a river, as the river's ecosystem can cope with that amount of pollution quite easily.
  • the horse may be thirsty but not have the will to drink.
  • everyone who trusted Jesus in the first century A.D. died.
  • no one has a clue.
  • love is the greatest thing upon this earth.
  • there never is just one truth.

[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]

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#truth #list
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Not merely an optical illusion -- even atheists might find Jesus in this splatter of ink.  From Mount Olive's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #inkblot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We presume he's playing the Minute Waltz.  From the University of Cincinnati's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #violin #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horses #carriage #pulled both ways
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #night sky #starry night #night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1945 yearbook.
Here's a tidbit about the bottom book pictured here, Forever Amber:
[Author] Winsor denied that her book was particularly daring, and said that she had no interest in explicit scenes. "I wrote only two sexy passages," she remarked, "and my publishers took both of them out. They put in ellipses instead. In those days, you know, you could solve everything with an ellipsis."
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch Magazine (1893).
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #men's fashion #dandy #men's skirt #umbrella coat #men's dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The fantasy of animals voluntarily flying into one's mouth continues to baffle us, but here's yet another example.  From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animals #carnivore #meat #vegetarian nightmare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've been introduced to a suspicious dog.  From Nebelspalter, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #artist #two headed #siamese twins #conjoined #two heads #double headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #shaving cream
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #vintage magazine #dead meat #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #hunger #elephant #animals #giraffe #starvation #out of reach
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #death #skeleton #target practice #illustration #arrows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alchemy #faces in things #distiller
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #giant #lynx #coeurl #caracal
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This detail of a photograph from a Philadelphia yearbook, 1968, may assist with time travel. 
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #hallway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rank Doggerel by J. James Hewson (1892).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #explosion
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September 20, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Autumn's face had no smile. In fact, she had no mouth at all" (Renee Andrews, Healing Autumn's Heart).  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1970 yearbook.
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#nature spirit #goddess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #cursed
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Something, Defined (permalink)
Here's something translated from the original Italian.  The translation loses something, eh?  From Understanding (of Language) Are Not Enough by Volodymyr Bilyk.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's little known that every jester's marotte comes with a sword, likely because the sets invariably get separated over time.  From Tulane's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Rhetorical Answers, Questioned (permalink)
This book ends happy that it won't have to be weighed for postage, wondering how many stamps it would demand.  By our calculation, the book would weigh 1.1 pounds.  For a flat rate box with 2-day shipping, the book would require 37 first class stamps.
From I Forgot by Mrs. Frederick Field, 1888.
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#postage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As a rule, it's best not to let the Sphinx get in the middle of an argument.  From Rhode Island State's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #debating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Before the advent of electronic messaging, people got a lot of mail, with bonus nifty postage stamps one could collect and trade.  From Le Charivari, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1890s #mail
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Corpse in the Constable's Garden, by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole:

***

"Crikey!" he said; and, feeling the comment inadequate, added, "My aunt!"

***

"I shall stay at Coward's Hotel in Craven Street." [This is not some kind of metaphor: it is presented in a matter-of-fact way as a literal hotel (though I'm sure the authors' intention here was humorous).]

***

"Don't pretend to be a fool, Hubert," said his wife. "You know you said you liked Proust."

"I said I liked him in moderation," said the Colonel. "The trouble was, there wasn't any moderation."

***

"Praise the pigs there are two of them, anyhow." ["Praise the pigs" as a way of saying "thank goodness" was a new one on me! And, indeed, a quick look at Google Books suggests that this character may have been the only person ever to say it.]

***

"He told me Barrington was a great authority on something or other, I've forgotten what."

[If I'm not mistaken, this is the second novel by the Coles in which I've encountered a character who is a "great authority on something or other," or words close to that. (:v>]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We actually don't mind diluted water, having developed a taste for it on skid row.  From Elizabethtown's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #water #drinking fountain #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #winter #bear #costume #bear costume #keeping warm
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
These deliberate distortions (obviously ghosts) appear in Virginia Commonwealth University's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #distortion #warped
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you prefer to encounter animal-faced door knockers when you go a-callin'.  An illustration by Richard Doyle.  From Fairy Tales, Narratives and Poems, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #door knocker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #severed head #cello #musician #music teacher
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The good die young or else outgrow it."  From The Judge, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #skull #quotation #only the good die young #early death #good die young #truism #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #deforestation #winged horse #factory #fat man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #balancing act #rage #illustration #tiptoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #ladder #illustration #st. peter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #saint peter
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September 19, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The best epigram we've encountered that begins an old yearbook: "Honestly, we didn't think you'd care."  From Knox College's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #epigram #apathy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"You had to face autumn, and beyond autumn, winter" (Maurice Wiggin, The Memoirs of a Maverick, 1968).  From Brevard's 1975 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #autumn leaves #giant leaf #orange leaf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1876.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #wedding #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
It is an outright lie that there are very few one-letter words and that they're rarely misspelled.  For proof, see One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.  This false quotation is from Word Juggler User's Manual, 1984.
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#one-letter words
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Medium well done."  From The Leatherneck, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #divination #occult #fortune teller #crystal ball #spirit medium #psychic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Cap and Gown yearbook of the University of Chicago, 1917. 

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crushed #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #fighting death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat man #physiognomy #goat #people who look like animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #illustration #irish bull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirits #spirit photography
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Anything we say about this photo will constitute slander, and we don't need smiling m*niacs coming after us with axes, gas cans, and a hatred of culture.  From Washington & Lee's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #destruction #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wondering if this was an accidental skull-face effect, we analyzed the photo with our custom Uncanny Detector app.  Sure enough, she really did have a skull face.  From Queens College's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Trains often run late for funny reasons.  From Nebelspalter, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #jester #train #marotte #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #dove
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Not just wax but light itself drips from candles, a phenomenon rarely captured on film.  From Yeshiva's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Chronos' wheel of the fortunes of war,  From Nebelspalter, 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 #father time #war #chronos #wheel of fortune
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Rhetorical Answers, Questioned (permalink)
Q: "Do you remember?" -- a chapter in The Land Where the Sunsets Go (Orville Henry Leonard, 1917). 
A: "I Forgot" (Mrs. Frederick Field, 1888).
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#memory #forgotten #forgetfulness #do you remember
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Link, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #crocodile #alligator #debbil
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September 18, 2019

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're delighted by this reaction from a logo designer in Massachusetts who snagged our Minimalist Coloring BookYoung Wizard's Hexopedia, and Self-Intuiting Polarity Cards:
"I've only just become aware of your work and I'm both grateful and in awe. I'm especially smitten with the Hexopedia. As someone who conjures things for a living, I feel as though I've stumbled onto a deep well of utility and aesthetics I'll be able to draw and learn from for years to come."
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#hexopedia #prof. oddfellow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There are but 2 Google results for "alcohol's footprint."  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #footprints #bottle
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Annie Dillard's marvelous Teaching a Stone to Talk.  It's the "Voice of a Pebble" in The Voices by Warren Sumner Barlow, 1870.
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#teaching a stone to talk #pebble
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
For many students, the hands-on experience in "lab" is where real and lasting learning is acquired.  From Western Carolina's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #dracula #1980s #wooden stake #stake to the heart
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Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier (permalink)

Q: Which is funnier: a bra or panties, or a bra and panties?  Hint: this is according to P. G. Wodehouse.

A: Wodehouse thought it was funnier to surprise the audience only once, with bra OR panties, than to surprise them twice, with bra AND panties. From a letter to his theatrical crony Guy Bolton, 1955:

"Don't you think it's the showing of the brassiere earlier that hurts the showing of the--no, it's the other way about. The brassiere falls flat because the audience has seen the other feminine garment, the black one (which does get a big laugh). Why not cut one of them out and get a surprise at end of scene?"

(Thanks to Jonathan Caws-Elwitt for inspiration!)
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#wodehouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess White Flame by Gertrude Crownfield, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #fairy tale #sword #illustration #flaming sword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Karl's Journey to the Moon by Maja Lindberg, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #talking bird #soap bubble #astral travel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Robin Goodfellow, illustrated by John Franklin for The Old Story Books of England.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #imp #fairy #old england #sleeping #illustration #robin goodfellow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One is prompted to envision an eye in the pyramid when an empty triangle is coupled with "Beauty is in the eye / of the beholder."  The triangle, not so subliminally, becomes an eye holder.  From Clarion's 1993 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #triangle #eye in the pyramid #eye in triangle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog only if you have danced before cheese with a face.  From Nebelspalter, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #dancing #cheese #1890s
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"The movies aren't drama, they aren't literature—they're pure mathematics." —Christopher Isherwood, Prater Violet*
*Though we like that particular line, Prater Violet is what today we'd call a blog post, not a novel by any definition of that word.  Anything this light, this flimsy, ought at least to be satirical or outright funny.  One might be tempted to say that the book is, at the very least, an inoffensive slice of life, yet in the end it actually does offend.  And that is because of its central lie.  Isherwood portrays himself in the story as a struggling screenwriter, but he hasn't the imagination to conceive of any legitimate role that his character has been hired to do.  In other words, why is he being paid to be a day-and-night companion to an Austrian film director?  Not as a screenwriter (the film's story has already been written; at most, Isherwood serves as a text doctor, but that's hardly a 24-hours-a-day, months-on-end job).  No -- in fact, what is blazing obvious is that Isherwood was assigned not to a writing job but as a spy/minder of the director.  He portrays his character as being an artist, but in fact he's a government spook.  The dishonesty is disgusting.  We love a good, honest spy story -- but this is a spy story that believes its own cover story and expects the reader to be stupid enough to follow along like an idiot dog.
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#isherwood #prater violet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #little people #magnifying glass
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Apollo, the great sun-god, was just getting into his golden chariot.  He was very tall and beautiful."  From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #solar deity #sun god #Apollo #solar chariot
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Old News (permalink)
"Women play sexual roles."  A headline from the Kansas State Collegian, 1975.
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#sexism #vintage headline #women #lol #sexual roles #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From the University of California, Southern Branch yearbook of 1959.
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#silhouette #gothic #castle #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #orange sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by W. W. Denslow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard of oz #lion #flying monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1869.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #fairies #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are an Edgar Allan Poe.  From Eastern Carolina's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #poe #vintage yearbook #yearbook #edgar allan poe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dancing #circle dance #illustration #maypole
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September 17, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #good and evil #preacher #exorcism #goat legged
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a way to experience that levitating legless chair, but with no chair at all!
From Millikin's 1930 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #vintage men #men #lap sitting
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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 #witch #fairy tale #cauldron #illustration #wicked witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From the State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #costume #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Great idea -- a living picture frame.  One could affix air plants onto the wood with hot glue.  It could also be a solution for bathroom mirrors, to help soften the shock of one's appearance.  From Le Charivari, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #picture frame #living frame
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
Rare -- a haloed coin, the patron saint of "a penny saved."  From The Kingdom of Coins by Bradley Gilman, 1894.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #halo #penny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hats #women #vintage women
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Superintendent Wilson's Holiday [a short story collection], by G. D. H. and M. Cole:

***

Matthew Kingdon, Fellow of St. Philip's College, Oxford, was quite unable to settle down to prepare his paper for the Philosophical Society. 'Do Relations Relate?' was a fascinating subject, and he had promised himself good sport in answering the question, and incidentally discomfiting his great rival, Dr. Mugsley of St. Jude's.

***

All the male Pedders were rather like surprised parrots.

***

[Bonus: A theatre called the Megatherium.]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's bat being serenaded by a dove is from Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat #dove #birds #musical animal
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Old News (permalink)
"Autumn days are prologue to pleasures and problems."  From the College of William and Mary's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
They would never dance on anything thicker than a smooth elastic spider's web.  From The Island of the Rainbow by Camilla Crosland, 1866.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #spider web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's where the lost rib hides within the zodiac.  From The Word, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#occult #vintage diagram #zodiac #esoteric #diagram #1900s #lost rib
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cupid serves drinks.  From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #alcohol
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This haunted photo appears in the University of Rhode Island's yearbook of 1997.  Why are orbs so ghostly?  We explored the answer in the context of this other ghostly photo.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #orbs #bench
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Death lets the eagle nibble on his finger bone.  From Svetaet, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #gnomes #tiny people #bottled ghost #specimen bottle #specimen jar #giant fetus #medical horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #mountain climber #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fruit head #fruit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skull
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September 16, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #piano #chair #pianist #rocking piano #piano chair
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
It's a bizarre and wonderful phenomenon that whenever you see rows of asterisks in a book, they invariably illustrate the text either following or preceding them.  Here's a great example, in which the asterisks are sparkling stars in a cloudy sky, from The Will-o'-the-Wisp by Marie Petersen, 1874.
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#asterisk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
No matter how empty the room, no matter how desolate one's life, a balloon bouquet can make all the difference.  From the State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1940s #balloon #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A mermaid and a sea horse.  From The Great Sea Horse by Isabel Anderson, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The land of lost balloons.  From The Wonderful Land of Up by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by Neely McCoy, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #balloon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #memento mori
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The devil's dentist.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #dentist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's no fun being a century ahead of the times.  From The Master Key by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by F. Y. Cory, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ahead of the times
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Amulet with head of the goddess Athor."  From The Word, 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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#egyptian #goddess #amulet #athor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch Magazine (1888).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #king #three-legged race
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Art.  Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life."  Illustration by Eunice Baccich, for Tulane's 1918 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rainbow #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If animals were made of prepared cuts of meat.  From Nebelspalter, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #meat #vegetarian nightmare
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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 #artist #modern art #painter #paint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"While sitting on the floor may be an art with some people, with me it is a punishment."  From The Judge, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #table setting #sitting on the floor #low table #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I swear it's not too late."  From the Evansville yearbook of 1970.

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

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#sunrise #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lake #not too late
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A restoration of an image from The Entheogen Review Complete.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #tribal art
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Precursors (permalink)
Dancing the jitterbug, we presume, but this was over 30 years before Cab Calloway's song "Jitterbug."  
From the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insects #dancing bugs #bugs #dancing insects #jitterbug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mayans, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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September 15, 2019

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A combination piano and stove, for when the mood of a composition is con fuoco (with fire).  From Le Charivari, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #piano #1890s #pianist #musician #stove #cooking #piano stove
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you are all-too familiar with the imperatives of 'is and seems.'  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
(Our restoration, as per usual.)  From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Tale That Never Ends by Louie Stacey and illustrated by Helen W. Young, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A chapter title from The Ghost World by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you read while surrounded by animals.  An illustration by Paul Simmel for Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #reading #cats #redhead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Erskine College's Erskiniana yearbook of 1910.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #literary society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1886.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Svetaet, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #deity #pollution #smokestack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From K Svetu, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #egg #wrestling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #optical illusion #tree #faces in things #perspective
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #giant #bridge #infrastructure #handsaw
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #giant fish #1900s #overseas mail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mirror, mirror, hanging there, who in all the land's most fair."  From Folk Tales from Grimm by Ethelyn Abbott and illustrated by Dorthy Dulin, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #fairy tale #magic mirror #wicked queen
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September 14, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Even if you can find a lamp this big, in the Ikea age you have to put it together yourself (in a well-lit area, ironically).  From Le Charivari, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some of fake news' unnamed sources.  From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #fake news
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The gate in the sky."  From Adventure magazine, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #aurora #reindeer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #vintage map #map #yearbook #pirate #1930s #pirate map
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #bird headed #anthropomorphism #animal headed
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Do you believe in dreams?"  From The Strand (1892).

If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreams #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A strange interlude from Tulane's 1931 yearbook.  Whether for revenge or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #angel #good and evil #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cute detail: the toys in the bottom left corner suggest that the photographer also does children's portraits.  From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #bear #hunter #photographer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hat with rat bait!  A chained piglet!  A frog ladder!  A fish tank!  A stork's nest!  Plus, walking the alligator.  From Nebelspalter, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #fashion #vintage fashion #fishtank #big hat #weird fashion #hat #pet walker #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hampton's Magazine (1910).
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #stunt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's knight in armor doing a handstand is courtesy of Le Journal Amusant, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #knight #upside down #handstand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #murder #biblical #abel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demon #fish #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #full moon #moonrise #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #giant #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #whale #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #angel #giant #war and peace #illustration #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #thumbing nose #finger nose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This starscape may be used to facilitate astral travel.  From Southwestern's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#constellation #vintage yearbook #cosmos #yearbook #stars #orion
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September 13, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Thanks to the delightful 6thsensical for this homage to our new booklet on How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time:

“The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.”

—Chris Van Allsburg


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#vintage illustration #vintage postcard #loch ness monster #nessie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This image may be highly mysterious to you.  Prof. Camille Paglia said that not one of her college students this year had ever heard of Moses.  (Deeply disturbing!)  From Florida Southern's 1933 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ten commandments #vintage yearbook #yearbook #moses #biblical #illustration
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Precursors (permalink)
At first glance, we thought she was flying and a precursor to Mary Poppins.  From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #mary poppins
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Rare -- a goat butting a skeleton while skull-faced angels look on.  From Washington University's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #occult #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Alphabet Juice, by Roy Blount, Jr.:
***

'Stringing English together is like rewiring an old house.'

***

[Re. the word "logocentric"]

'What other kind of too-narrow focus provides... a diagnostic name for itself? If you're ethnocentric, does your culture include a folk dance acknowledging the limitations of your outlook? Is there a beeper that goes off when you get too technocentric?'

***

[Midway through this book that is primarily comprised of digressions, Blount gets to the end of an entry entitled "Memorabilia" and says] 'There might be a way to drag the Latin /mirabile dictu/, "marvelous to say," in here, especially since it might lead us into "too marvelous for words" and other philological lyrics by Johnny Mercer--but we've got to move along, if this book is going to have any narrative drive.'

***

'Minimalism:

'A little of it goes a long way.'

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[I especially recommend pp. 204-208, about names.]

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[Blount's priceless encapsulation of a bit of classical absurdity] 

'Aristotle maintained that a falling body accelerated because it became more jubilant as it found itself nearer home.'

***

[Apparently the word ptarmigan is spelled thus because scholars with Greek on the brain mistook the origin of the Scots Gaelic word from which the bird's name actually derived. Says Blount, the ptarmigan] 'lives in cold climes and mostly shuffles or flutters around. It isn't putting on neoclassical airs.'

***

[Blount claims that the letter Q, in the Braggadocio typeface], 'looks like a South Park character.'

***

'De Quincey says that Wordsworth would grow impatient when anyone else spoke of mountains.'

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #levitation #weightless #flying horse #horse and buggy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life (1909).
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#vintage illustration #angel #the people could fly #construction #winged men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Third Reader by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #pursued #torch
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Old News (permalink)
"Yiddish is not dead," from The Justice newspaper (Brandeis), 1992.
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#vintage headline #yiddish #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This philosophy student's official yearbook portrait is that of a wizard alchemist. From Davidson's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alchemist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Buried in a book.  From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #crushed #big book #1900s #funeral
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the "booze cruise."  From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #ship #alcohol #giant bottle #booze cruise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #porcupine #war and peace #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #the people could fly #olympics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #big hat #nap #siesta
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #bathtub #rocking bathtub
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate astral travel.  From Trinity College's yearbook of 1973.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #woods #perspective
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1886.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #goat #dreaming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Danish Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Christian Andersen, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king #candle #illustration
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September 12, 2019

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Note the eerily magical 3-D effect of this printing process from 1925.  This image may be used to facilitate astral travel.  From Wesleyan College’s 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #reading #night #streetlight
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
There's a fine line between painted pianos and Piano Paintings (neither of which is a painting of a piano).  From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #piano #pianist #musician #painted #painted piano
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you're going through the black pit, may you discover the escape route.  From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #horse #oz #black pit
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Aleutian Sense, illustrated by Robert Osborn, 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 #winter #weather #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pen and ink #scissors #quill #1890s #ink
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#mirror #vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Bugbears: The bachelor friend who tells your bride what a gay dog you used to be."  From Life (1908).
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#vintage illustration #vintage gay #bachelor #gay innuendo
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Old News (permalink)
Making it through the day.  From West Chester's 1992 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #survival #headline #making it #getting through #one day at a time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 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 #anthropomorphism #1900s #faceless #no face #ball headed #billiard ball head #ball for a head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #giant #boxing #steam train #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #monster #axe
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Kansas State Collegian, 1975.
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#vintage photo #chair #big hat #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They waved their wands over the fire."  From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 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 #fairy tale #fire #spring
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Old News (permalink)
The dead are encouraged to plan for the future.  From McGill Daily, 1978.
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#sphinx #egypt #pyramid #dead #news #vintage headline #dying #vintage news #weird news #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a "Bad" costume.  From The Child's Picture Grammar, written and illustrated by Sophia Rosamond Praeger, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #halloween #mask #october #hallowe'en #costume
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The Right Word (permalink)
However you spell it, "It's all bologny."  From Tulane's 1928 yearbook. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #Bologna #baloney
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Suppose you be, not merely seem!"  From The Fra, 1911.
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#quotation #advice
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September 11, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

The best thing to do right now is to:

  • get yourself a cookie
  • proceed antisystematically and aphoristically, or lyrically, or musically
  • keep together
  • turn to page 8 and get an idea
  • lay low for a bit and let the heat die down
  • hold the nerves in, keep cool and let the fish take the line for a run
  • bite the bullet and show up
  • rest for a little bit
  • keep quiet
  • get away from the monkeys
  • sit down, relax, have some lunch
  • go for a swim
  • build a fort
  • give these people a chance
  • get out there as quickly as possible
  • just watch what he does
  • learn how to cope on your own

[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]

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#advice #survival #what to do #list
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the pedal exercisers for one's armchair or desk.  From Le Charivari, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #cycling #exercise
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Wednesday Addams and her Marie Antoinette doll.  From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #severed head #addams family #doll #wednesday addams #marie antoinette
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's today's grim reaper offering pain medicine to a stork with a toothache.  From Washington University's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #grim reaper #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #rooftop #medicine #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.

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

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#grotesque #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You can imagine how comf'table his roomies felt!"  From Saturday Evening Post (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 #devil #frightened #shaving cream #roommate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Drink deep, or taste not."  From the Ellendale yearbook of 1915.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #learning #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She thinks the head coming up through the floor is her father's spirit.  From The Devil's Bride by Milton H. Stine, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #occult #spiritualism #seance #spirit medium #glowing head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #cemetery #graveyard #spirit #afterlife
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiny house #studio apartment #crowded #cramped #close quarters #tight space
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal headed #hybrid #donkey headed
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Old News (permalink)
Here's a round of one-handed applause, from the Kansas State Collegian, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #the sound of one hand #one handed #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang (1896).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monk #knife
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From the Westminster yearbook of 1997.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #orbs #perspective
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #faces in things #pipe smoker #smoking dog #dog smoking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #folk tale #pamela colman smith
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Some glowing forests defy understanding and therefore are never clear-cut (you're welcome; exquisite puns are what we do). 
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #tree #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Typewriter art from The Link, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #typewriter #typewriter art #audrey hepburn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #candle #illustration #french fashion #hats
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to Elizabeth Henry, the Bibliophibian, for featuring our How to Be Your Own Cat over at Instagram.
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#cat book
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September 10, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you wouldn't give the chocolate to an ogre.  From Speaking Likenesses by Christina Rossetti and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1874.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #chocolate #ogre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Polar bear versus wolf: which would you wager to win?  From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #polar bear #northern lights #wolves #aurora borealis #animal fight #1910s
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Unicorns (permalink)

This just in from tech wizard Gordon Meyer:

"Taken in Bavaria’s Black Forest, I put the Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound in practice."

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#unicorns
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There is no limit to stupidity.  Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity." —Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
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#stupidity #gene wolfe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The "freshmantelope" is a Googlewhack.  From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #geometry #antelope #origami
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is Tumblr fig-leafing and barricading works of art that aren't theirs to judge or censor.  Social media is 1890s fresh!  From Le Charivari, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #censorship #fig leaf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's College 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #break the chain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two ways to find a cosmic sea monster.  From Star Lore of All Ages by William Tyler Olcott, 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 #constellation #sea monster #cetus
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Great Southern Mystery, by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole:

***

[I suspect this pun was unintentional.]

The most startling thing so far about the entire affair was the finding of the sovereigns in the dead man's mouth.... At present, Arkwright could make neither head or tail of it.

***

"You could get pots and pots of money from the Daily Whatever it is."

***

[Bonus #1: Tennis-playing minor characters nicknamed Bunch and Lumps.]

[Bonus #2: Two old clubmen who are colossal bores; each warns the journalist seeking them out that the other is a colossal bore.]

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The most hesitant dedication we've encountered.  From Colorado College's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hesitant #dedication
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1848.
   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(
`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"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 #king #sea serpent #sea monster #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sleepy King by Aubrey Hopwood and Seymour Hicks, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat #owl #fairy tale
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Something, Defined (permalink)
We're firm believers in the "Something Connection."  From 1984, via Mail Order Apocrypha.
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#vintage ad #ufo #aliens
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Duke's 1930 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #midnight oil #candlelight #candle #student #studying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #armor #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1906.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #satan #demons #hell #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #corkscrew
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #africa #strange map #1890s #skull map
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"It's a funny thing about circles that they have a focal point, and if you stand in the middle, things get bounced back in a strange way."  From The Justice newspaper (Brandeis), 1992.
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#quotation #circles #bouncing off
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September 9, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A Lustful Faun" from Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat legged #1920s #faun #illustration
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Advance praise for the newly emerged How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time:

"Genius.  I couldn't stop smiling while reading the entire thing." —Hugo, Washington

"Such an artful device for guiding readers through an analysis of the dynamics of their own faculties of perception within a metaphysical context.  If readers are willing and able to follow where you lead, I have little doubt they'll spot Nessie.  But even if the best they can do is make a good faith attempt, they'll very likely see themselves more clearly than they did before." —Nash, Virginia

"I love this inspired little book!  It makes me want to go look at Nessie immediately!" —Lawrence, Tennessee

"This is a guide to see many things in life, factual or fictional.” —George, the Netherlands

"At the end I was reminded of the old question ‘have you found Jesus?’ And now when I tell others about our visit I will happily say that while I didn’t see Nessie, I did find her." —Gordon, Illinois

"If you approach the Loch Ness monster as a skeptic then you’ve already tilted the tide towards disbelief.  I personally used to be deeply skeptical until I started experimenting myself with the tools in this booklet and eventually saw Nessie." —Bryan, California

Not yet in bookstores, you can spot it here on Amazon.

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#loch ness monster #nessie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Juggling atoms and molecules.  From Washington University's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #juggling #illustration #atomic #atom #molecule
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "The Three Giants" by Mrs. Marcet, in Eyes and No Eyes by M. V. O'Shea, 1900. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #smoke
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1931 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elucidatio Fabricae Vsusque Astrolabii by Johann Stoeffler, 1553
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you have stood beside driftwood and felt "now ready."  From The Erudite, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)  See this remarkable guide to practial magick you can do with a pencil and paper: The Pencil Witch.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Seton Hall's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #orbs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poedinok, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #globe #anthropomorphism #map #faces in things #geography #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #musician #illustration #one-man band
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
No parking after funeral.  How many times do they have to say it?  From Virginia Commonwealth University's 1970 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1885.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From the Illinois State yearbook of 1969.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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September 8, 2019

Precursors (permalink)

There's a precursor to the TV show phenomenon of "Jumping the Shark" (of course named after the Season 5 episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie waterskied over a shark and thus outed the writers as having run out of ideas).  It's what we might call "Unchaining the Monkey."  Of the classic sitcoms we revisit, Bewitched lasted the very longest before throwing in the towel amd ushering in a chimp.  That show made it deep into Season 5 before giving up.  The worst offender, though the one show with the very best excuse, was Gilligan's Island, which made it only two episodes before going ape.  But at least the jungle island setting made the casting seem less desperate.  Frankly, the most painful offender of this bunch is Hogan's Heroes: a chimp supposedly having escaped from a zoo nearby the German prisoner of war camp is dressed up and becomes history's most reliable courier of the Underground resistance movement.  It's tearfully unfunny.

Classic sitcoms in order of ability to delay the monkey:

  1. Gilligan's Island - "Voodoo Something to Me," Season 1, Episode 3
  2. The Addams Family - "Morticia Joins the Ladies League," Season 1, Episode 6
  3. The Munsters - "Come Back, Little Googie," Season 1, Episode 25
  4. Green Acres - "Horse, What Horse?" Season 1, Episode 29
  5. I Dream of Jeannie - "Fly Me to the Moon," Season 3, Episode 1
  6. Hogan's Heroes - "Monkey Business," Season 3, Episode 29
  7. The Beverly Hillbillies - "The Gorilla," Season 5, Episode 6
  8. Bewitched - "Going Ape," Season 5, Episode 22
Honorable mention: Monkee Davy Jones appeared on The Brady Bunch in "Getting Davy Jones" (Season 3, Episode 12).  This honorable mention notwithstanding, we respectfully disgree with TVTropes that "Everything's Better with Monkeys."
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From The Story Of Eclipses by George F. Chambers, 1903.
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#sun #eclipse
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Proof that Blondells are neither dimwitted nor dim-watted.  From Cine-Mundial, 1935.
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#vintage photo #vintage hollywood #light bulb #hollywood #joan blondell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1932 yearbook.  See this remarkable guide to practial magick you can do with a pencil and paper: The Pencil Witch.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Then .. the arms crushed him against the stone breast."  From The False Gods by George Horace Lorimer (1906)

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#vintage illustration #statue #idol #deity #god #crushed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Illustris viri D. Ioannis de Roias Commentariorum in Astrolabium, 1551.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage diagram #faces in things #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"One mirror was not enough; he required two."  From McClure's (1910).
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#vintage illustration #mirror #dandy #vanity #mustache
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Old News (permalink)
If you like to inhale chemicals, you have what it takes.  From The Justice newspaper (Brandeis), 1992.
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#vintage headline #pollution #chemicals #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
They all turned their backs on it, but it kept smiling.  From Lehigh's 1955 yearbook.

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#snowman #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #keep smiling #shunned
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
"What a lovely thing a rose is."  From The Strand (1893).

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#vintage illustration #rose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From High Point College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #insect #bug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #king of cups #tarot #disparity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #batik #bedspread
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #mustache #vegetable people #asparagus #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face #ominous #shadows #danger
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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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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #horror #severed head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Yes, a stripping sheet ghost.  From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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September 7, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #human faced #vegetable people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Wesleyan College (Macon GA) yearbook of 1932.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck (1891).
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#vintage illustration #mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#old book #olympians
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Unicorns (permalink)
The unicorn.  From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916.  See A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #unicorn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Fraternities."  From University of Southern California's El Rodeo yearbook (1915).

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cavemen #leopard skin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #ship #teapot #steam ship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cupid hides behind a mask of death.  From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #angel #merman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #war #champagne #popping cork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #vegetable people #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #flying sofa #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #poverty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #owl #scarecrow #anthropomorphism #faces in things #human flower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #alcoholism #shadow #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you compose your best music atop a lioness.  From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #lion #smiling animal #composer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe
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September 6, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #oz #giant cup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #animal fight #wrestling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Sometimes we think back to our college days.  From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#grotesque #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Drinking in a faint sound."  From Scribner's (1896).

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#vintage illustration #garden
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Milky Way Dairy."  From Life (1900).
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#vintage illustration #milky way #outer space #pegasus #milk jug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An automaton's zodiac.  From The Foolish Almanak, 1906.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington & Lee's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #novelty glasses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pchela, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #skulls #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #suitors #numbers
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to change clothes and grow a beard. From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908

From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908
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#vintage illustration #beard #animated gif #dandy #well-dressed man #change of clothes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #frogs #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #costume #rooster costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #distortion #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But, see, here are the tracks of a rabbit's feet.  He must have brought us the message."  From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #easter bunny #rabbit
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Old News (permalink)
"Two fruits turn to vegetables."  A headline from the Kansas State Collegian, 1975.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Fairy Tales by Henry Morley and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #reborn #hatching #egg #world egg
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
Here's the scorpion of secrets.  "What's up with all these secrets?  No one knows -- that's the point."  From Salem's 1995 yearbook.
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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#vintage illustration #scorpion #secret #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secrecy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #playing cards #gnomes #card game
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Mr. Pinkerton Grows a Beard, by David Frome:

***

He made a sharp turn to the right and went rapidly along until he came to the Swedenborgian Reading Room. He opened the door, put on an air that he felt might be supposed to be Swedenborgian, nodded to the middle-aged man in charge, and settled down at a reading table.

***

In the rear of the flat he could hear Mr. Gwatley-Wells singing loudly about an old spinning wheel, accompanying a hand organ playing down in the road below. Now and then as the organist's arm wearied Mr. Gwatley-Wells would get ahead, and would hold the note powerfully until the music caught up with him.

[That's just what I would do!]

***

"I trust Mr. Gwatley-Wells has not got himself into any unusual difficulty?"

Not knowing the nature of Mr. Gwatley-Wells's normal difficulties, Bull shook his head.

***

[The protagonist and another character have been joking about whether she'll "compromise" him if they're seen alone together in a hotel restaurant.]

They went in the hotel and sat down in a corner in the dining room between two large gilt-framed pier glasses set at right angles.

Molly Cameron looked in them and smiled. "That makes so many of us that it must be all right," she said.

***

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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #tower #view #observation platform
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September 5, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #lion #moloch #mountain spirit #eaten alive #it's a trap
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We take questions three times a day or as needed.  From Cine-Mundial, 1936.
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#vintage ad #vintage photo #question mark #medicine #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #angel #bear #illustration #peace angel
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Dictionary of Ugly Words, a book attributed to us.
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#dictionary #ugly word
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.

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#moon #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century (1905).
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#vintage illustration #cat #reading
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The news used to be more interesting.  "Carol screamed as she saw her bed rising above her."  From The Strobe newspaper, 1982.
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#levitation #weird news #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How do you spend your own "Period of Destiny"?  From Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox, 1919
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#vintage illustration #clock #time management
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Silhouette, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Feeling mostly invisible.  From Lehigh's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #invisible man
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Old News (permalink)
You knew that the press was moribund, but here's a 1978 newspaper that committed suicide and then reported on its own death. It's The [Late] Clarion Call, 1978.
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#vintage headline #weird news #strange news #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Seen in Three Days, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis (1893)
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#vintage illustration #angel #sun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mind the gap.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #artist #cliff #painter #mind the gap #watch your step
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #fountain pen #bird #writer #ink pen #literate animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #skull #mourning #hooded figure #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #cherub #peace angel
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeletons #living dead
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
These photographs may be used to facilitate time travel.  From New Haven's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #car #vintage automobile #vintage cars #cars #automobile #parking lot
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #prayer #praying #clasped hands
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September 4, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #fish #stingray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #artist #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lord Saunter in company with his depraved associates."  From The Maniac Father by Thomas Peckett Prest (1850)
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#vintage illustration #cheers #alcohol #depraved #depravity
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Old News (permalink)
"Bitter and twisted" -- a headline from the Spoke newspaper, 1985.
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#twisted #vintage headline #bitter #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The keen-eyed will detect Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots in the foreground.  Reblog if more photos should feature Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots in the foreground.  From Seton Hall's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #robot #rock 'em sock 'em robots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zanoza, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #hand of god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It isn't true that a rolling lucky penny will gather no mojo.  From Nebelspalter, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #money #coins
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Nothing like that will get me." From Baylor University's Round-Up yearbook (1915).

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #purity #yearbook #vintage gay #confirmed bachelor #gay innuendo #man's man #unworldly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #horse #flying horse #jumping through hoops #leaping horse #one thousand #1000
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #cow #artist #bull #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #underworld #afterlife #river styx #1930s #illustration
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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.
42704 23380
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #mayhem #illustration #panic #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #seven heads #big shirt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bugs #illustration #hairbrush
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #caterpillar #giant insect #big bug
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Fickle Finger of Fate Award."  From the Melrose yearbook of 1969.

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#fate #effigy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #carving #award
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts #coffin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fire #bartender #alcohol
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Literature is preserved in honey.  Our proof: The Honey Jar, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #bees #honey
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September 3, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Using toothy shoes to stomp dragons is no longer considered humane.  From Nebelspalter, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Good guys versus bad guys."  From The Link, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #good and evil #faces #cartooning
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder by the Book, by Jennifer Rowe:

***

The phone rang forlornly, as though it had been ringing for some time and had given up hope of ever being answered.

***

"I don't give a continental what Malcolm thinks, I can tell you!"

[Not giving a continental was a new one on me, so I did some research. What follows is some info from the OED, in case you also need to know more about not giving continentals.]

"Used as a depreciatory epithet (originally with reference to currency). (Cf. sense  B. 2b below.*) U.S. colloquial."

*"A currency note issued by the Continental Congress during the war; the depreciation of which afterwards gave rise to the phrases not worth a continental and not to care (or give) a continental. orig. U.S."

1851   Knickerbocker 37 554   That clock you sold me ain't worth a continental cuss.

1874   E. Eggleston Circuit Rider (1903) 148   I tole him as how I didn't keer three continental derns fer his whole band.

1890   Amer. Notes & Queries 5 169   ‘A Tinker's Dam’ is equivalent to the expression, ‘A Continental Damn’.

[Interestingly, the Jennifer Rowe books are set in Australia (and are as recent as ~30 years ago).]

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The cover of Elizabethtown's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The pretzel and beer god.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #beer #deity #pretzel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sleepy King by Aubrey Hopwood and Seymour Hicks, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #forest fairy
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men."  From 1907, via Ephemera Obscura.
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#clown #vintage postcard #nonsense #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The beacon to elsewhere" by Virgil Finlay.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dissociation
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
Damaged by seawater: To Lovers and Others by Harry C. Morse, 1918.
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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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#old book #rose #water damage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Silhouette, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fire #bellows
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Music adds to the religious experience."  From Seton Hall's 1969 yearbook.
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#religion #church #vintage photo #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Marcus Waterman, 1864.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter #snow maiden #winter spirit #snow sculpture #snow spirit #snow figure #snow girl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Looks like he has a black eye and scabs on his knuckles, but proper grooming apparently comes before bandages.  From an ad in Lustige Blätter, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dandy #mustache #vintage man #man #razor #black eye #ad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
*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 #artist #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #hell #fake news
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Jugend, 1905. 
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#vintage illustration #sun #solar deity #birds #faces in things #sun god #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cats #violin #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A crystal ball from the Teachers College of the City of Boston yearbook of 1928.

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

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#vintage illustration #divination #wizard #occult #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fortune telling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Semanario Pintoresco Español, 1844.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #transformation #frog #faces
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September 2, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is the most interesting college seal we've encountered, for its inclusion of the sprite Willie who is conjured with the magic words "Brillig Spillig Jiminillig."  From Wesleyan College's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #magic words #sprite #illustration #college seal
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Indubitably (?) (permalink)

Nothing can go wrong if:

  • there are backup systems.
  • you don't get caught.
  • you do it right.
  • the eternal truths are stated loudly.
  • you figure things out carefully.
  • gold is near.
  • you keep your head and listen to me.
  • fate is on your side.
  • you don't panic.
  • you devise a strategy.
  • we all stick together.
  • you just treat X and Y as constants.
  • we operate strictly according to plan.
  • you practice what you have learned.
  • your harness is sound.
  • these people don't get elected.
  • everything goes right.
  • you just return to Paradise Island.

 

[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]

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#list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #doctor #temperature #thermometer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard that you're part of all you've met, but here's the actual mathematics of it.  From Lambuth's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tennyson #geometry #math
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The moon is not dead."  From The Honey Jar, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Smoking flutes.  From L'Impartial de l'Est, 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 #flute #big hair #red hair
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Seton Hall's 1969 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #living statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #imp #boot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"You press the button — the coroner does the rest!"  From the Codex yearbook of Beloit College, 1893.

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

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#vintage illustration #photography #bulldog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anthropomorphism #swan #leda
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #spider #giant spider #monster spider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pearson's, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #reading #books
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #illustration
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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, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #don quixote #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #twins #pipe smoker #double pipe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #physiognomy #hybrid #horned man #people who look like animals #people who look like their pets
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #tiny people #bottled ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dancing #bohemian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Spidora.  From North Texas' 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #spider woman
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September 1, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Perhaps there are but two witches in the world, who are born into it again and again" (Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator).  From North Texas' 1918 yearbook.
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#witch #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I am the slave of the charm."  From It's Your Fairy Tale You Know by Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #genie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By JBC, 1894
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#underwater #sea creature #sea life #under the sea #seahorse
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Thinkograph, 1916.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #boots #serpents #snakes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reading coffee grounds is only as dramatic as we make it.  From Ric et Rac, 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 #divination #fortune teller #coffee grounds #coffee reading
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1962 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #snow #winter #sled #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sledding #snow sled #vintage men #men #smiling men #happy men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Alfred Sindall, from The Strand Magazine, 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 #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shtyk, 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 #dance of death #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull face #x-ray
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
*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 #artist #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Diatel, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #torture #punishment #cat-o'-nine-tails #robot #whipping
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to check his reaction to the news. From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.

From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909
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#vintage illustration #animated gif #newspaper #no news is good news #bad news
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #newspaper #journalism #fake news
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 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 ad #hand #magic hand #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magician #levitation #vintage magic #magic #weightless #stage magic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #dog #armor #muzzle #dachshund #dog armor
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel, but it should not be used in conjunction with near-death experiences.
Another full moon within the cupola, from Bradley's 1966 yearbook.
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#full moon #vintage photo #darkness #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night #interior moon
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's a good question.  What does the gauzy realm use to distinguish bridal veils from regular ghostly attire?  From General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, and Other Poems by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Daikoku, Japanese deity of wealth and luck.  From Rockford's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wealth #money #japanese #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity #good luck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #many headed
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