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, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Three-thirds of a ghost?  We do the math on Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
312
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #persian cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1981.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #robot #mechanization
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1989 yearbook.

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

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#horror #vintage yearbook #zombie
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Old News (permalink)
Just as there are evil doers, there are evil doors, and when the two pair up, watch your fingers!  From The Gateway, 1981.
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#evil #vintage headline #door #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1918 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From [Laurentian] Lambda, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #fear #despair #worry
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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 #fable #anthropomorphism #faces in things #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camel
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Old News (permalink)
Bigfoot cries in the night.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #monster #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #wine #alcohol #grapes
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's like looking at my old family album of Polaroids.  From Tufts' 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rule
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Old News (permalink)
"The goodbyes make the journey harder."  From Saint Mary’s College's 1995 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #journey #headline #goodbye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 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 #demon #hairdresser
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #open skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphere #crystal ball #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Unknown Worlds, 1941.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #angel #dream
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Old News (permalink)
"Fall events caused anxiety for some—pleasure for others."  From Lee's 1969 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surprising percentage of folks on the internet don't actually know How to Look at Pictures (Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1938).
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September 29, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #underwater #swimming #shark #diver
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Old News (permalink)
"Happenings in Dakotas: snake holds milkmaid while he drinks from pail."  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.
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#snake #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dove #folk tale
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Old News (permalink)
"The pig is in the parlor."  From Modern Screen, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #piggy bank #pig #vintage headline #headline #porcelain pig
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"I stepped backward in time.  How else explain my visit to that oddly old-fashioned office—which ceased to exist after I left?"  From Fate magazine, 1960.
This happened to us when we purchased the Medusa plaque pictured here.
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#time travel #medusa
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #political cartoon #dragon #wolf
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Into the black pit and out again."  From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #oz #black pit
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #death #spirits #grim reaper #scythe #alcohol #bottled ghost #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State's 1910 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 #pharmacy
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
From The [Alberta] Gateway, 1939.
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#maledicta #expletive
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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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spanking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #halloween #broomstick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1918 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #dentist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1992.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An impstone in The Martlet, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #occult #geometric #impstone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We spotted this ghost in Saint Francis' 1972 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiny man
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Here Lies Jeremy Troy, by Jack Sharkey:

***

"Don't play innocent with me—I'll play by myself!"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Only when combined will these two potions offer a soporific effect.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #potion
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September 28, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
If you feel that "we are living through a time of unprecedented and troubling change," recall that so did folks in 2004 (see clipping), and verily so did folks in every year of recorded history.  As the archives of old newspapers, magazines, and books make perfectly clear, humanity is always at a crossroads, and it is always the "end of the world."  We might actually find comfort in that, and in the Buddhist conception that past-present-future is all of a piece.  Clipping from Suddenly They Heard Footsteps by Dan Yashinsky, 2004.
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#time #end of the world
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Good manners can cover up the most complex of feelings."  From Dark Shadows episode 357.
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#manners #dark shadows #julia hoffman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Face in the Pool, written and illustrated by J. Allen St. John, 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 #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #grotesque #dragon #dragonslayer #church art
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Old News (permalink)
"Demons in devilish UFOs."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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#demon #ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Grimace, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #illustration
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #war and peace #nut cracker #peace angel #nut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.  This is the opposite of 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #sweeping #tiny man
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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.
71418 55562
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#vintage illustration #monster #money #japanese #vintage japan #bear #tea #st. george #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1915 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #goat #precipice #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fraternities #secret society #blindfolded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 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 #death #cemetery #graveyard #grim reaper #hooded figure #Faust
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1972 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #drugs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You might have been right about parking attendants.  From The Martlet, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #demon #1970s #meter maid #parking meter #parking attendant
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Atlantic Christian's 1981 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A day of changes."  From Wid's Daily, 1919.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Jerusalem Inn, by Martha Grimes:

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"Want to see a trick?"
[....]
"Sure. If it's a good one."
The uncertainty of his acceptance seemed to please her. Probably, she had expected No. She would have taken Yes, unimaginative as that reply would have been. But that her trick was being measured off against other unknown and even better tricks made it pleasantly risky.

***
Plant had always considered Trueblood more of an event than a person.

***
"I'm going to have an early night," said Lady Stubbings. It was a line [in a book] that Melrose Plant could easily have dispensed with--weren't they forever having their "early nights"?--but in this case, he found the line especially excruciating and wished the whole lot of them would have an early night.

***
"I thought she married that Italian duke, or whatever."
"Count. No. He's floating in Venice. I suspect she's got cold feet. Wet feet, rather."

***
"You're carrying a cue in your oboe case," Melrose said to Tom.
[...]
"You ever try playing snooker with an oboe?"

***
"I made myself an authority on Mesopotamia; that way they think I must know a lot about everything else. It's amazing, really, how much people think you must know if you know about something nobody else much cares about."

[I could be wrong, but I think that's an actual ploy from the Stephen Potter canon.]

***

[Bonus: A character called Mrs. Withersby (not quite a Wetherbee)]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judgment of Peace by Andreas Latzko, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #chariot #old book
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September 27, 2021

Old News (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 1931.  For haunted clockwork music, see Neons Gone Mad's page.
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#cemetery #prof. oddfellow #tombstone #gravestone #music video #video
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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#vintage illustration #father time #quill pen #calendar #1900s #ink #numbers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail from a comic in The Martlet, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #geometry #abstract idea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1938.
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#vintage ad #black cat #1930s #vintage hollywood #3D #hollywood #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Like sundials, hourglasses are properly read by their shadows.  From National's 1954 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"What a poor soul is the late-20th-century citizen.  Perhaps we see flying saucers and aliens now because we can't see angels anymore."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1992.
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#vintage illustration #angel #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #gun #suicide #hand of god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #flying fish #fish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The triple ghost of a fireman.  From Rowan Technical's 1975 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #1970s #vintage man #man #fireman
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #ghost #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you look carefully, you might see black Pegasus flying over the night rainbow.  From Washinton College's yearbook, 1933.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #faces in things #run over #car accident
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From North Central's 1963 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He almost gets religion."  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#religion #vintage illustration #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We considered a double major in Slow-Burning Chicken Coops and Rot Made Essential.  From Purdue's 1909 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Enchanted House by Edith Harrison and illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #angel #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A world emerging from a head within the blue egg of a pupil, as the face in the universe looks on.  This sort of thing is why we prefer people to wear sunglasses.  From Taylor's 1989 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear
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September 26, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#silhouette #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tell Your Fortune (via Gordon Meyer).
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#vintage illustration #divination #wizard #fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #emotional baggage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #japanese art #dragon
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Baptized with a Curse by Edith Stewart Drewry, 1870. 
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#curse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
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#vintage illustration #dog #wolf #fox #folk tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A frozen mammoth and giant frozen fruit.  From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #ice #elephant #mammoth #frozen #fruit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The side-hill gouger."  From Purdue's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cryptozoology #sidehill gouger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fable #leopard #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago State's 1951 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #idol #golden calf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #genie #jester #djinn #question mark #ball and chain
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Precursors (permalink)
This figure from Susquehanna's 1953 yearbook (right) reminded us of the cartoonist Winter Leaping Frog
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"There is something around that doesn't belong."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From If Winter Don't, by Barry Pain:

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Tarzan (of, if I remember rightly, the Apes)

***
Then there is the three-dot trick. At one time those dots indicated an omission. To-day, some of our best use them as an equivalent of the cinema fade-out. Those dots prolong the effect of a word or sentence; they lend it an afterglow. You see what I mean? Afterglow ...

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(And now we’ll have a little novelty. The Great Novelists of to-day number their sections. We’ll have a number without any section. This has never been done be——
4

***
Why was it, Luke asked himself, that she was always so merry and bright with others, and so very different when she was with him? Could it be that she wore a mask to the rest of the world, and disclosed her real self only to him? It could. It could also be just the other way round. That was the annoying part of it.

***
“That’s always the way. Whenever I make a beautiful thing, some cow always gets it. It’s happened before. If I wrote my beautiful biography, some cow would parody it. The world’s full of cows.”

***
He went like a lamb, too broken to resist. I confess I am worried about him. I must try to see him again if
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a chance of doing so.”

(And that shows you again, how the number of a chapter-section may be used economically.)

***
(The reader is requested to look out. Once more the numbers of the section will be used as a part of the sections. The price of paper is still very high.)

“Just imagine,” said Luke. “Only this morning I was convinced that life was hell. Absolute hell.”

“And now?” asked Jona, shyly.

“Now I know that it’s
7,”

he said, and kissed her.

Luke walked back. It was some time in the small hours that he entered his house burglariously by forcing open the window of a room that had once been called a den.

As he sat at breakfast the next morning, Dot said: “Hope they gave you a good dinner at the ‘Crown’ last night.”

“I don’t know,” he said. “I don’t really remember what we
8.”

“All love and honey, what?” suggested Dot.

“Dot,” said Luke, “don’t be asi—
9.”

“Oh, that’s all right,” said Dot “You don’t need to pay any at—
10

tion to my chaff.”
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #ninja
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September 25, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We made this Neons Gone Mad video in both psychedelic color and black-and-white.  Which version do you think works better?
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #veterinarian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #yarn doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Musical ecstasy.  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
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#vintage illustration #mask #hallowe'en #cat costume #paper bag head
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
"Everybody's entitled to blow his own horn!  And everybody's doing it!  (But listen carefully for the sour notes!)"  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage ad #horn #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't let her in."  From Jerry Todd's Up-the-Ladder Club by Leo Edwards and illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon.
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#vintage illustration #witch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
After four years in art school.  From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #artist #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Episcopal hypocrisy."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#religion #vintage illustration #grotesque #anthropomorphism #hypocrisy #fox #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #mask #faceless #no face
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
These figures were cut out even before the yearbook was printed.  From Susquehanna's 1953 yearbook.

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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cutout
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #death #horror #weightless #flying car #vintage automobile #automobile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #memento mori
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1975.
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#politics #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Centenary's 1964 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage man #kitten #smiling man
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Old News (permalink)
Some Francophobia from Woroni, 1995.
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#vintage headline #francophobia #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #cat #paper craft #bookmark
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September 24, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Oyster versus rat: which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #oyster #rat #animal fight
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #elf #secret #pixie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Seems like a 50/50 chance, but I swear I choose the wrong key every time.  From the Phantasie handbook.
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#vintage illustration #good and evil #light and dark #key
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again."  From Lessons in English by Arthur Lee, 1917.
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#truth #sentence diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was altogether a very stylish snow man."  From The Curlytops Snowed In by Howard Roger Garis and illustrated by Julia Greene, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Now clear your mind."  From Wid's Daily, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #meditation #clarity #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1920 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull face #occult #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #moon #thumbing nose #toy train
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose by Roger Garis and illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #rabbit #crying animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Grimace, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #grim reaper
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #demon #snake #cave #radio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The George Washington Ghost, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #skull #dice #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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#vintage illustration #optical illusion #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #secret society #illustration #trompe l'oeil #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Chapel Hill's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #hallucination #surreal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let's live tonight."  From Film Daily, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reporting for our college newspaper, we were once assigned to cover a Board of Regents meeting.  Yes, they looked just like this, and no, we couldn't make head or tail of what transpired.  From Centenary's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1964.
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#vintage headline #biology #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Rest You Merry, by Charlotte MacLeod:

***
[Flapping meets bric-a-brac]

"Mrs. Ames was a big woman, and she had that damn fool cape flappin' around her like a washing in a windstorm. She must o' been hell on bric-a-brac."

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His face was not regular enough to be handsome or ugly enough to be interesting. He thought of it mainly as a place to park his glasses.

***
He found an unused chuckle or two, got them out of his system, and wiped his eyes.

***
"No use trying to paint the lily, Dell, or whatever it is you do to the damn things."

***
Jemmy had a regrettable taste for practical jokes. That baby of hers would probably be born wearing a false nose and celluloid buck teeth.

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That was the crux and quite likely the nexus of the entire situation.

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"Jemima didn't know whether she was coming or going half the time, but at least she never loitered along the way."

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"He wouldn't know the Bronte sisters if they walked up and hit him over the head with their reticules."
***

[Bonus: A white elephant of a library bequest called the Buggins Collection.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woman At Point Zero by Nawal Saadawi.
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#vintage illustration #flower #noose
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September 23, 2021

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"She is not dead, but sleeping."  From Purdue University's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #death #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored to have contributed an original diagram to Wooden Books' Divination: Elements of Wisdom.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
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#sun #dream #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King of the Kerry Fair by Nicolete Meredith, with woodcuts by Nonny Hogrogian.
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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage book #book
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This is like when bands shout the name of the city they're playing that night.  San Francisco knows what you want ... or maybe it's Miami, Memphis, Chicago, or Portland, Maine.  From Modern Screen, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #map #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Japan and Its Art by Marcus Bourne Huish, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #drum #rooster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1915 yearbook of the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sorority
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Link, 1974.
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#hourglass #father time #vintage photo #scythe
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands by James William Buel, 1891.
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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 #ghost #apparition #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Cold reality, from Kansas State's 1976 yearbook.
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#moon #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #tower #cold reality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #moon #night sky #stars #boat #sailboat #navigation
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
A swimming skeleton.  From La Grimace, 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 #death #skeleton #living dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's yearbook of 1926.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #bed of nails #fakir #toilet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bottle #giant bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Keep your ear close to the ground!"  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage ad #ear #giant ear #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to pull the strings. From Hampden-Sydney's 1977 yearbook.

From Hampden-Sydney's 1977 yearbook
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #gif #hoodie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Advice from a caterpillar."  From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caterpillar #advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The sky scorpion has extra legs (possibly for wearing more bell-bottom trousers).  From The Martlet, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #scoprion #ad
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September 22, 2021

No News Is Good News (permalink)
From Unknown Worlds, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vampire #1940s #no news is good news #illustration
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Thanks to [former DJ] Green Sugar in Germany, who said, "The clock's ticking, the surreal singing, the radio noise effects... A very warm spook. This is one of this songs which is a world on its own... I LOVE IT!!!"
And thanks to DJ Tundra, who said, "A both highly enjoyable and very artistic musical endeavor that is full of mystery and intrigue as the story unfolds. Really great creativity on full display here. Impressive work by all involved, and what a great music video!!"
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#music video #video #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A great time-saving tip those running around in circles: "If you are only a yard from the tree, it takes less time to run around it."  From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #tree #running #time saving #going in circles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Old News (permalink)
Tale as old as time.  "Romance begun in want columns ends in divorce court."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#vintage headline #divorce #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the cloud of incense from a wandering priestess lift your spirits today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #priestess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #horror #telephone #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1993.
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#vintage illustration #money #success
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #giant #horror #surreal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sends your thumping heart up into your throat!"  From The Film Daily, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #heart #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They say she is young, a golden girl, created as if from spring sunlight."  From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The perversion of popular literature as footprints of the devil.  From The Foot-Prints of Satan, or, The Devil in History by Hollis Read, 1873.
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#vintage illustration #pulp fiction #mass market #dime novel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #pollution #smokestack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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#knight #fashion #vintage fashion #armor #personal protection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Carolina Central's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #rabbit
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1981.
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#crystal ball #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The habit does not make the monk."  From The Magazine of Art, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #monk #angel
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Skylark," by Vincent Starrett:

***
[Don't look now, but I guess we have a Pickwick Papers reference here!]

He sang and whistled....His repertoire, like Mr. Weller's acquaintance with London, was extensive and peculiar.

***
[The airplane mechanics] looked wildly at one another and shrugged in unison, like a vaudeville trio.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you've ever wondered about what made tracks in the snow, the answer may surprise you.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals #snow #winter #bear #skiing
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September 21, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our guidebook to Puzzling Portmeirion is cited in The Prisoner: Ästhetik des Fragments im Kultklassiker by Corinna Dziudzia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #jester
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #eye #eye in the sky #evil eye
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
When your appointment book is blank but you're still "all booked up."  From Dark Shadows episode 1088.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here's how mycelium grows into a man, apparently.  From the Molds and Man by Clyde M. Christensen.  You may recall our previous encounter with slime mold.
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#vintage illustration #mold #mycelium
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Buddah [sic] and the Beast."  From Oglethorpe's 1951 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #buddha
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art Bulletin No. 5, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #terror #drawing #faces #laughter #1920s #sketching
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The overtaking of avarice."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #church art #avarice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Salem's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dying languages" -- a detail from A Little Book of Language by David Crystal.
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#skull #serpent #bird #dying language
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
King Neptune launches operations in the air.  From the United States Naval Academy's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #merman #poseidon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #king neptune #trident
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #shopping
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Kentucky's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #levitation #weightless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This billiards player does not have a human head.  Zoom in and verify for yourself.  We might have missed this anomaly, had it not been for our custom Uncanny Detector app.  The lingering question is, Did this entity graduate, and in what major?  From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #billiards #strange photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The story that "could not be told."  From The Film Daily, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #map #1970s #canberra
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Vanishing Lord, by Lucy Brazier:

***
I am well versed in the dealings of The General Public and if experience has taught me anything it is that the public are rarely general.

***
A steady and often surly gentleman...with one of the most expressive moustaches I have ever known.

***
No good ever came of panicking on an empty stomach.

***
"The food's a bloody shambles when term's out"....
"There are some interesting twiddly desserts, though"....
"Pffft! Twiddly desserts can bugger off."

***
"Hmm! Well! Let me tell you!" There is a pause whilst Head Porter decides exactly what it is he wants to tell me.

***
I am beginning to think that the whole thing was definitely hat-related.

***
The Dean checks his watch and utters what could be a swear word, but sounds made up to me.

***
"What are you talking about, breakfast?" Hawkins Head Porter asks, brows so firmly knotted it would take an experienced sailor to release them.

***
"I've just seen a chap coming out of a cleaning cupboard with a bowler hat hidden under his jacket. What do you make of that?"
The bowler hat must mean that the chap is a Porter, unless a Charlie Chaplin convention is being held in one of our cleaning cupboards.

***
"He is none other than Professor Dexter Sinistrov, your brand new Bursar."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #japanese art #toad #horned toad
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September 20, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird #cannon #vintage magazine #magazine
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Ask the stars": Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#occult #astrology #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you've ever been stung by a wasp, you already know they wield swords.  From the Phantasie handbook.
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#vintage illustration #sword #wasp
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
That's the only type of umbrella to use when it's snowing, as it won't get burdened by the weight of accumulated flakes.  However, those might not be snowflakes here.  From The Gateway, 1981.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Innis Herald, 1990.
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#snowman #political correctness #word police
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1991 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #loneliness #friendless #sign #1990s
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Old News (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #noah's ark #biblical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #hand #helicopter
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Old News (permalink)
"It was over so quickly and my heart yearns to return."  From Concord's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #nostalgia #headline #all over
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Short Stories for Little Folks by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #acorn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Almanach de Bonne Fortune, 1770.
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#vintage illustration #lady luck #tarot #good luck #queen of coins #vintage almanac #almanac
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #runes #isle of man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Taylor's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Army radar contacts moon."  From The Film Daily, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #moon #man in the moon #faces in things #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #waterfall #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
47622 27334
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Centenary's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #dog costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic Magazine, 1954.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #smoke
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September 19, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored to be cited four times in the dissertation Narrative Contradictions in Space: An Architectural Study of Spatial Simulacra, Temporal Displacements and Story-Based Reenactments by Anna Katalin Gogh, 2019.  Our research in question is from our book Puzzling Portmeirion.
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#portmeirion
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1979.
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#god #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Burn away bad luck.  From an ad in UFO Review, 1985.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #magick #luck #occult #candle #1980s #ad
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"Because all the clocks disagree on the time of day, it is left up to the residents to decide their own temporal reality.  All residences exist in a time warp.  If the clock is right, you are hallucinating."  From McGill Daily, Dec. 8, 1983.
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#clock #hallucination #temporal anomaly #time warp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Even Medusa (especially Medusa) had bad hair days.  From Unknown Worlds, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpents #medusa #snake hair #gordon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #cats #visor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the OCA Sketch [Ontario College of Art), 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #modern art
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #silence #bird #lock and key
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #butterfly #vintage yearbook #yearbook #moth
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #death #magick #skeleton #occult #violin #kabbalah #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Cap and Gown yearbook of the University of Chicago, 1917.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen, illustrated by Emily Harding, 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 #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Clarke College Scrapbook of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magazine of Art, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #angel #satyr #faun #le morte d'arthur #aubrey beardsley
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  From West Georgia's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tongue out
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack and the Bean-Stalk by Hallam Tennyson and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #giant #jack and the beanstalk
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From How to Do Things Right, by L. Rust Hills:

***
I keep meaning to go back to Tristram Shandy and track down the examples of all the forms of digression, but there just doesn't seem to be time these days to do worthwhile things like that.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #frog #eaten alive
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September 18, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet,1977.
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#vintage illustration #monster #giant #crushed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#animal head #vintage yearbook #trophy #honorary society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.  See also The Pencil Witch.
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#vintage illustration #witch #reading
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #haunted house #spooky #ominous #red house #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A wolf in sheep's clothing.  From Truths Illustrated by George Owen, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #sheep #wolf in sheep's clothing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #carried away #the people could fly
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Old News (permalink)
"Half-dog, half-rabbit animal" on the prowl.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #cryptozoology #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe
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Old News (permalink)
"Brain power a useful tool."  From The Almagest, 1990.
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#brain #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's yearbook of 1911.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #vintage yearbook #cave #yearbook #fraternities
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #clown #incoherence #art
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #on fire #burned alive #illustration #hair on fire #communism
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The rapping spirit (Klopfgeist, poltergeist) of Basel.  From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #devil #fairy #shakespeare #big city #midsummer's night dream #new york #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1843.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotist #human magnetism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And in the end, when you are finished ... you are finished."  From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1971 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He with a tiger."  From Jack and the Bean-Stalk by Hallam Tennyson and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, 1886.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Otter versus fish: which do you wager will win?  From Chatterbox, 1913.
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September 17, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"Haunted by the horrors."  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #music #music notation #song
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Old News (permalink)
"The tulip that walked."  From Together, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #seashell #vintage headline #shell #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Revelations of an ear-lobe."  From Photoplay, 1932.
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#vintage ad #ear #earlobe #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
The deadly rain.  From Car of Coffin? Which Do You Drive? by David C. King, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #rain #car accident #deadly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There's only way to the top.  Political ambition, from Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skulls #politics #ambition
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"His life with her was impossible; to him she was the symbol of death!"  From Amazing Stories, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #illustration #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It's over now and just begin, a life within you has died."  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.

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#death #angel of death #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #grim reaper #gallows #hanged man #1900s #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Be comforted -- if you need it, there's still plenty of time.  From MacMurray's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairies #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musicians
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"How to tell the temperature from your cat's sleeping position."  From Your Incredible Cat: Understanding the Secret Powers of Your Pet by David Greene.
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#vintage illustration #cat #temperature
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Some might consider it cheating to install an invisible snowman, but in fact it's not as easy as it looks.  From Tri-State's 1976 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Whom the gods would destroy."  From Wid's Daily, 1919.
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#vintage ad #destruction #god #vintage hollywood #blood #hollywood #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death of a Pig in a Poke, by Matthew Hole:

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All Nelly's acquaintances were from the same mould and had names like Beryl, Muriel and Iris. Jac frequently wondered if they were the same person disguised.

***
It was what she had not said that had stuck with him, though it was hard to picture a lack of words.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Ring, 1982.
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#mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Phantasie handbook.
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#vintage illustration #horror #scum
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September 16, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #coffin #perfect couple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fun with Monsters by Richard Cummings.
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting #portrait of dorian gray #dorian gray
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that limbo dancing may not be something you need to do if you have tight muscles (Tatum De Roeck).  From Florida Southern's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage woman #limbo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Innis Herald, 1988.
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#vintage illustration #pagan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From McGill Daily, Dec. 8, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #eye of god #being watched #embarrassment #surveillance society #feeling watched
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Unknown Worlds, 1943.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #horror #spider web #caught in a web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait, as his own ghost.  From Virginia Commonwealth's 1972 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1995 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #giant mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #wedding #hit in the eye
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1905 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Master yourself, then satisfy your desires."  From Satisfy Your Desires By Gaining a Knowledge of Your Psychic Powers Within by Rhoderic Parker, 1915.
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#vintage photo #1900s #psychic #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth's 1913 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Encounters will occur."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you entertain animals.  From Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #campfire #night #bear #violin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Use this photo to test your progress as you learn How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Shimer's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1967.
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#butterfly #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Index to Occult Sciences, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #occult #fire breather
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September 15, 2021

Ampersands (permalink)
Thanks to Ken Ronkowitz for being inspired to ponder ampersands based upon what he calls "a curious little book by a wonderfully odd author, Craig Conley, which is logically titled Ampersand."
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#ampersand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #drummer #drum #rooftop #musician #spire
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#ghost #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
They're being facetious here, but it's common advice.  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #creativity #advice #bad advice #unplanned #unstructured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1875.
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#vintage illustration #japanese
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #violin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #monster #japanese #bulldog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#vintage illustration #rhino
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"All afternoon, it was obvious to me that things were not going so well."  From Innis Herald, 1989.
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#not going well
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to our 2020 photo in which we're scouting for fireballs in the night sky.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#ufo #aliens
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Illinois Benedictine's 1986 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #musician #saxophone
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #fashion #vintage fashion #giant hat #big hat #hat #women's hat #vintage hat #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Superstitions Anciennes et Modernes, 1733.  (Did you already know that "a," "aa," "aaa," and "aaaa" are all words?  They're in the dictionary of all-vowel words.)
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#vintage illustration #bigfoot #sasquatch #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Walking the leopard.  From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #leopard #pet walker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An illustration by L. Quick for Ohio Wesleyan's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sphere #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #costume #incognito #cone costume
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift a moment in time. From Belmont Abbey's 1971 yearbook.

From Belmont Abbey's 1971 yearbook.
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#sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gif
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Old News (permalink)
From The Ring, 1982.
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#bird #vintage headline #headline #squeeze
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September 14, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sad: compare the artist's rendering of Pyramid Cube University to what got built.  Not only is the pyramid not on top, but even the five-spot dice design got downgraded to four-spots.  From The Sage's Key to Character At Sight by Frank Earl Ormsby, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A deathly aversion to alcohol while hypnotized.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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Old News (permalink)
You'll have spotted the issue here.  They'll use blimps to search for the Loch Ness Monster, and then when UFOs swarm around Nessie the authorities will claim that the blimps were misidentified.  Classic coverup!  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1982.  See How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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#ufo #vintage headline #blimp #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The True History of Pepper's Ghost by John Pepper, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #skeleton #vintage magic #magic #vintage book #book #pepper's ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Screen Guilds' Magazine, July 1934.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #mutton #faces in things #meat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It turns out that cats expect you to know a whole lot.  From Everything Cats Expect You To Know by Elizabeth Martyn.  Alternatively, you can instantly apprehend all feline expectations by transforming into a cat yourself (non-surgical): How to Be Your Own Cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #devil #scarecrow
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fish #1920s #giant fish #yin yang #fish out of water
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #ape #scales
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #shadow #hand #abandoned #urbex #derelict #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Golf is no longer taught this way in college, after a wave of litigation.  From Hampden-Sydney's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #golf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Were you ever out in the Great Alone?"  From The Film Daily, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ice floe #solitude #stranded #alone #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death in Patent Leather, by R. A. Bentley:

***
Sir Blaine's eyes grew round with amazement, and Felix felt that if he were the sort of man to whistle he would have whistled.
***
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The Right Word (permalink)
"My name is Ezra.  And my father’s was, and his father before him.  You find a name like Ezra, and you don’t give it up" (Abe Vigoda on Dark Shadows).
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#dark shadows #ezra #abe vigoda
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September 13, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"Married on death bed."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #vintage headline #death bed #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#fairy #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It would have been hard to say which of the pair regarded the other with most suspicion."  From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #raft #bear #stranded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1988.
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#vintage illustration #crying #behind the wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroic Deeds of Beowulf, illustrated by Walter Ferro.
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#vintage illustration #monster #beowulf #grendel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Great news -- there'll be good times tomorrow.  From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
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#vintage illustration #old book #good times
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #occult #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The five bucks."  From The Film Daily, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #deer #buck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #face #snakes
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From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #giant #chinese
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #people who look like animals #art
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1967.
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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 #surfing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The moon is crying.  From Johns Hopkins' 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #man in the moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One of many tools we use to create our posts and tap into our latent reptilian part of our brain.  From Astounding, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #science fiction #dinosaur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #vintage car #car #headlight #spotlight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Anomalist #1.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #matrix
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's like a zoetrope, only nothing happens.  From Shimer's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #zoetrope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is how the scan came out.  From The Martlet, 1973.
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#silhouette
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September 12, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"I am through with elephants."  From The Popular Magazine, 1930.
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#elephant #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #fishermen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You want nice, cropped and clipped geniuses you can parade through the streets of your cities without embarrassment."  From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #genius
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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#alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The idol of the flies."  From Unknown magazine, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #magick #occult #idol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Melt the plastic image."  Photo of placard-bearer from Barnard's 1970 yearbook.

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#melting #on fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #plastic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #little devil #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Don't make me see too many people at once, or I lose my wits." —D. H. Lawrence
From Wichita Falls' 1934 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #trompe l'oeil
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1993.
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#vintage illustration #electricity #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Culture marches on."  From The Varsity, Oct. 3, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #hanburger #culture #baroque #hamburger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage japan #vintage yearbook #yearbook #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #vintage hollywood #hollywood #kismet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Though the sands of time get all the credit, the melted wax of time drips on.  From Swarthmore's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #1920s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #moon #darkness #lantern #hybrid #faces in things #night #bird man #the people could fly #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's so rare to see a yearbook acknowledge how we're all doubled.  "The one-that-is is always two, and this is where we find ourselves, we are and we are doubled. ... To be is to be doubled.  Not to be is to be absolutely single" (Charles M. Stang, Our Divine Double).  From Cleveland Technical's 1984 yearbook.
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#twins #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #doubling
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Back Story, by David Mitchell:

***
I had to come on in the last scene as a character who hadn’t yet appeared in the play, Signior Anselme. He’s the deus ex machina who miraculously solves everything at the end. This involved a complete costume change for me. Most of the parts I played were servants, but Signior Anselme is an authority figure so my costume was a rather nice cream suit and a silk bow-tie. Not a made-up bow-tie but one you had to tie.
     I’m okay at doing that. It takes me a couple of minutes but I can fairly reliably make it into something bow-tie shaped. At the age of 22 I was still proud of my bow-tying skill and so, even when I realised that there wouldn’t be a mirror in the wings where I’d be doing my quick change, I didn’t suggest getting a clip-on as backup. ‘I can do it by feel,’ I thought.
     The problem was that I never knew the extent to which I was right about that, because I couldn’t see the state of the object that was under my chin when I walked on stage. This was a very unfair position to put my already giggly fellow performers in, night after night. ‘What will it be tonight?’ they must have been wondering just before they turned to face me. ‘What insane, lop-sided, unravelling knot, what weird lump or clod of cloth, will be lodged under David’s chin unbeknownst to him as he comes on with the placid face of the character who’s about to resolve the plot?’
     Soon it didn’t matter what the tie looked like – they’d still laugh. If it was a disaster, as misshapen as a Generation Game contestant’s first attempt at a pretzel, that would be hilarious. If it was basically okay but a bit wrong on one side, that would be hilarious. If it was totally fine then that would be even more hilarious because it would make a mockery of all their giggling speculation about something disastrous: it would be a hilarious anticlimax. There was actually nothing funnier, they discovered, than me appearing placidly from the wings in a normal-looking tie. The moment had gone toxic.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Like so many things in one's medicine cabinet, years might go by before you need it.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #necromancy #occult #idol #necrology
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Old News (permalink)
"Some humor not funny."  From The Gateway, 1981.
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#humor #vintage headline #headline
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September 11, 2021

Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Guess each form of water in this rhyme:
Water hole [1]
Water pole [2]
Water roll [3]
Water stroll [4]
Water knoll [5]
Water goal [6]
Water mole [7]
Answers:
1. tidepool
2. geyser
3. whirlpool
4. brook
5. wave
6. oasis
7. platypus
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#water
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Adjusting for inflation, that's more like $131,000 for getting him out of the maze.  From The Popular Magazine, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #maze #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Serapina by Anne White and illustrated by Tony Palazzo.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten #wagon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Innis Herald, 1996.
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Old News (permalink)
"Abduction by aliens ruins your day."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #alien abduction
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The old teaching methods are nearly forgotten today, and then again so is literacy.  From Pembroke's 1957 yearbook.
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#shakespeare #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #hands #safety
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #aliens #spacemen #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #ghosts #sheet ghost #spiritualism #seance #1930s
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Pearson's, 1900.
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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 #monster #sea monster #tentacles
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
A few moments' rest from pain -- unless a poisonous snake is creeping from a hole in the wall.  Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Montclair's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A thousand miles a day was an easy space."  From Myths From Many Lands by Eva March Tappan, 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 #mythology #flying horse #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A tiny goat dances a hornpipe on a soup tureen.  From Wide Awake, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat #dancing animal #dancing goat #tiny goat #art
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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 #moon #tarot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley'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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The wife from another world."  From Which Was Witch? by Eleaore Myers Jewett, 1959.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #extraterrestrial #another world
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The big hair trends of the 1960s and 70s adhered to very strict protocols.  From Barton's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #big hair #measuring #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's fitness tip is from Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #jack-o'-lantern #exercise #hallowe'en
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September 10, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to John Travolta's famous dance pose in Saturday Night Fever, nearly six decades earlier.  From Grove City College's 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #1920s #1970s #disco #saturday night fever #john travolta
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The man with the greatest pulling powe is not always the biggest nor the nearest."  From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage diagram #solar system #tug of war #diagram #planets
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #beard #sword #bluebeard #hidden picture
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
We may think a certain type of way about dressing up animals, but it turns out that all creation wants new things to wear.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #fashion #vintage fashion #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A brush with the ghost of derangement: Penetralia After Dark:
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Lon Chaney.  From Wid's Daily, 1920.
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#vintage photo #shadow #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #piano #faces in things #wee folk #vocalist #musician #flying piano #winged piano #flower car #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #sphinx #locomotive #headless #faces in things #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Ole Miss yearbook of 1919.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #holy death #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant skull #death worship #skull worship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"St. Brandan on the island of fiends and phantoms."  From Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands by James William Buel, 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 #demon #monk #good and evil #saint #saint brandan
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Old News (permalink)
"Beer to be lure for shy [Abominable] Snowman."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#yeti #vintage headline #headline #abominable snowman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A Salada tea bag and its unidentified companion.  From Kent State's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#monster #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #tea #costume #tea bag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #fable #fox #bird #native art #folk art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #severed head #decapitated
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A yearbook without a mysteriously glowing tree is as unlikely as a yearbook without a building on fire.  From Mars Hill's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #tree #glowing tree
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

[The highlight of this book comes right at the beginning, wherein the protagonists make bets about which American movie producer from the Wodehouse oeuvre the producer they're scheduled to meet will most resemble. See attached!]

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"You know," said Alison, "I was serious-minded before I married you."
"My darling sweet, you couldn't have been, otherwise you never would have married me."

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"And you think this Glanvilliers Ryanston--oh, my goodness!"
"Yes, it's even worse when you say it than when you only see it written down."

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She introduced the guests, who learned that the relatives were Aunt Wufilda, Aunt Waltruda, and Uncle Ordulf.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Stop searching in the dark!"  From Weird Tales, 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 #vintage ad #blindfold #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Guys enjoy dream-world while it lasts."  From Elmhurst College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #smoke #1960s #vintage men #toga
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Old News (permalink)
We're devastated.  We thought we'd finally gotten our second wind.  Turns out that's merely an opinion.  From The Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage headline #headline #second wind
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September 9, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Actually I've been up here some time now, and I quite like the life."  From Navy News, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #sheep #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
When was the last time you dreamed of pyramids?  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #pyramid #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #church
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 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 #fairy #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's rarely talked about, but this is the preferred way to write a love letter to a vampire.  From The Gateway, 1982.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ink pen #blood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pearl and the Pumpkin by Paul West and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #anthropomorphism #autumn #corn #corn king #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Eerie tales from the night skies ... In contact with the unknown."  From UFO Newsclipping, Service, 1990.
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#ufo #unknown #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #snowman #fire #burned alive #bonfire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lakeview's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #seesaw #balancing #illustration
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1894 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #decapitation #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #initiation #secret society
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #falling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #head first #deep end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Grimace, 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 #political cartoon #cat #mice #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wise and otherwise.  From Clarion's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #jester #fool #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #tarot #wisdom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#spooky #horror #1940s #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's mop wig is from Northeastern's 1970 yearbook.  Our very own mop wig has been ranked in the top 5 of mop wig looks through history, but we're too modest to quote that; no one dons a mop wig to put on airs.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #mop hair #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He always went to bed in his hat."  From Sporting Yarns by Andrew Haggard and illustrated by Griff, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There is no mirror in the washroom."  From The Martlet, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #no mirror
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September 8, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Arched Rock, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight.  From Chatterbox, 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #arch #rock #natural bridge #natural formation
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The shadow is only touching the moon."  From Dark Shadows episode 1075.
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#eclipse #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From You Better Come Home With Me by John Lawson and illustrated by Arnold Spilka.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wordeater, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #no means no #no #1960s #vintage headline #vintage man #man #nein #black eye #headline #bow tie #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The giant tries to drink the stream."  From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916. 
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chicken #illustration #bird people #chicken people
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I am but a small-winged bird: / But I will conquer the big world / As the bee-martin beats the crow, / by attacking it always from Above."  From Poem Outlines by Sidney Lanier, 1908.
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#rise up #poem #rise above #rising above
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The end of the ale-wife."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #demon #grotesque #church art
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Old News (permalink)
"It was unbelievable."  From Fairfield's 1994 yearbook.
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#unbelievable #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But there was no doorway there."  From Unknown, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #leprechaun #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Chapel Hill's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #severed head #vintage yearbook #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't let it happen!"  From The Film Daily, 1943.
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#vintage ad #hand #cannon #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #alien #spaceman #extraterrestrial
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"Don't Look At the Grid Tic Tac Toe" is really challenging, because if you write outside the lines, it's an automatic forfeit.  See our Tic Tac Toe Story Generator.
From Mars Hill’s 1950 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tic tac toe
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Old News (permalink)
Another headline that doesn't even relate to the story.  From The Gateway, 1980.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #lion #aesop
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From My Lucky Star, by Joe Keenan:

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His eyebrows shot upward and his jaw plummeted as though suddenly loath to be on the same face.

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"I've watched her sit here among her picture albums and make claims so outrageous the very photographs do spit takes."

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"Very grateful," he repeated, fixing me with a gaze so smoldering, so freighted with sex it would not have surprised me to glance down and find that my shirt was unbuttoning itself.

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Lacking toupees that could leap from our heads and spin around three times before landing askew, we let this comment pass as well.

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Gina was eating it up, oh-yessing and how-true-ing her head off.

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[And last but not least!]
“You wouldn’t know pathos if pathos threw a bar mitzvah in your vagina!”
***
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
Sometimes we don't realize we need a thing until we seriously do need it.  If a digit of St. Rinbo happens to be that thing you need today, here it is.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #lucky charm #relic
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September 7, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The incubus and Prof. Oddfellow.
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#prof. oddfellow #incubus #video #penetralia #standup comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #mushroom people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Do you live or merely exist?  From The Enterprise, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #existence #existential #ad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Pembroke'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 #orbs
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Old News (permalink)
News we can believe -- "Thought controllers at it again."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#vintage headline #thought control #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The scream had already begun -- she could only try to stop it."  From Dime Mystery, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #horror #severed head #decapitated
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #goat man #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #fairy queen #midsummer's night dream #titania #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That "Monday" feeling.  From the Magazine of Horror, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror #eaten alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rhode Island College's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #headache #migraine #deadline #bottle #stress #too much #under pressure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Rob Linke's official yearbook portrait is with a black sun.  From Tufts' 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #black sun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage men #men #weight lifter #muscle man #strong man #feats of strength
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You'll cry till you laugh."  From The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #balancing act #question mark #tightrope #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Old Fox Deceived, by Martha Grimes:

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"Do you mean to say you're leaving now?" The brandy snap was poised aloft, like a small plane.

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"I've this dicky knee, must have stretched a tendon when I was doing a bit of jumping last week." (Melrose always fell into this Old Boy idiom when he was lying. It was as if he had to invent a persona for the purpose.)
Beyond a brief nod of her head, Olive Manning's expression did not change, dicky knees not coming within her purview.

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"That whole Dillys March act."
"'Act'?"
She just looked at him. "Do you always play Little Sir Echo, Inspector? You're worse than my psychiatrist, and he's a treat."

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"Good Lord, I wouldn't even recognize my aunt if she were carrying a dulcimer."
***

[Bonus (One-Upping dept.): Taking his leave from a librarian who has spent the last several pages peppering her speech with French phrases, the protagonist ends the conversation with a random quotation in Latin.]
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A drinking game with the grim reaper.  From Swarthmore's 1980 yearbook.

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#grim reaper #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drinking game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #that's the way
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Bluth model home in Arrested Development.  From Colorado College's 1960 yearbook (a photo of the original college building in 1874).
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#architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #arrested development
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #cockatrice
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September 6, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A monkey throwing gold at passersby.  From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #money #monkey #gold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The throne of Lucifer."  From Shadowland, 1922. 
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#vintage illustration #devil #hell #lucifer #hell gate #gate of hell
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Old News (permalink)
"Wants to go but cannot."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#vintage headline #inertia #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #japan
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Unruly Robin, written and illustrated by Dorathea Dankovszky.
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#vintage illustration #cat #lightning #storm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #depression #broken mirror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, find loose clothespins irresistible.  From Blacky Daw by Adelaide Palmer and illustrated by Dorothy Saunders, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #crow #laundry #clothesline #clothespins
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
An oldie but a goodie -- "I think we're going to have a little rain, dear."  From Screen Guilds' Magazine, Sept. 1934.
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#vintage illustration #reindeer #deer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #orchestra #conductor
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ufo #piano #microcosm #vintage headline #macrocosm #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From For Men Only, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #iceberg #eskimo #aurora borealis #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Green Mouse by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Edmund Frederick, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #magic #birds #stage magic
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Tufts' 1981 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #lion #tiger #bear #bear costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Too addicted to rancid stories and out-of-date angles to give them up.  From The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #poison #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost from Swarthmore's 1980 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Think of your desires as realities."  From Woroni, 1971.
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#reality #vintage headline #visualization #desire #headline #magical thinking
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1972 yearbook.
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#ufo #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #close encounters
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #anorexia
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September 5, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Father kicked the drawing room cushions."  From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #pillow #cushion #kicking #From Chatterbox
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The Right Word (permalink)
Merriam-Webster claims that the first known use of "woo-hoo" as an expression of exuberant delight or approval was in 1981.  But Patrick Dennis used "woo hoo" nearly two decades earlier (see clipping), in his novel Genius (1962).  And we find a delighted welcoming whoop of "Woohoo!" in 1906's The Silver Maple by Marian Keith.  The March 1903 issue of Current Literature mentions "an excited and exciting woohoo."  Even earlier, in 1887, there's a skipper's exuberant "Woohoo!" upon finding the sea as soft as a pillow (in the nautical ballad "Difficult Navigation" in Puck, August 6).
Daily Writing Tips claims that woo-hoo originated in computer gaming and "is very recent and has no etymological basis," yet the Dictionary of the Chinese Language by Robert Morrison (1815) notes that "woo hoo" is an exclamation of admiration.  ("Admiration" being synonymous with the "approval" noted by Merriam-Webster.) 
We obviously offer zero woo-hoos for the disinformation out there about the origin and usage of "woo-hoo."  The lesson, of course, is that when something sounds unbelievable, like "woo-hoo" being only as old as 1981, it shouldn't be believed unless further investgation confirms it.  It took us less than five minutes to verify that "woo-hoo" is at the very least a century older than our authorities would admit.
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#woo hoo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starwind, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #duck #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #demon #money
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wine #bacchus #gemstone #shining #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The anxious ant.  From St. Nicholas magazine, March 1917.
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#vintage illustration #insect #ant #anthropomorphic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The foxing on this page was too pretty to trim away.  From North Texas State's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #yucca
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scandinavian Legends and Folk Tales by Gwyn Jones, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #merman #boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1930 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A dormouse watches an elf steal a mushroom (as they will).  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #elf #mushroom #dormouse
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Old News (permalink)
"Hunt goes on for trousers with alien past."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#vintage headline #alien #trousers #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Science Fiction Stories, v56 n03.
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#vintage illustration #cat #giant cat #tiny men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ya-Hoo, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake
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Old News (permalink)
If you already suspected this, you were right -- "Teeth cause of social decay."  From The Gateway, 1980.
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#teeth #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bigfoot #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Yeah, we've been to that shop.  From Unknown Worlds, 1943.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Butterfly Brain, by Barry Cryer:

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A while back, the Guardian newspaper sent five people to hang about in public places, listen to people talking and bring back the results. My favourite was from a garden centre, where a man was overheard saying that the sundial he bought last year had "paid for itself already." I immediately rang Alan Bennett, because we have a shared love of these sorts of snippets.
***

From Lost in the Horse Latitudes, by H. Allen Smith's:

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[Highlights of the "Principal Characters" section]
Charles Daggett, who is careful about pencils.
Joan Fontaine, a lap leaper.
Paul Jones, a tangent-talker.
Havelock Ellis, an expert on things.
***

From And Now All This, by Sellar & Yeatman

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Mt. Everest is 29,002 feet high. Do you consider this sufficient?
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A doppelgänger from Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
You've heard that life begins after forty, but this headline from The Instructor, 1953, suggests the opposite: "Life begins before forty."
Life begins after ...
  • death
  • coffee
  • sunset
  • a reset
  • puberty
  • analysis
  • midnight
  • retirement
  • five o'clock
  • high school
  • you get fired
  • you say "I do"
  • business hours
  • the question mark
  • the transfiguration
  • the day of judgement
  • weapons are returned
  • the introductory chapters
  • one's second cup of coffee
  • putting your house in order
  • spending days lying under a pear tree
  • one enters a state of superconsciousness
[Snippets gathered through the course of our research]
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#headline #list #life begins
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September 4, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Here's the strange manifesto of Neons Gone Mad, about which Gary Barwin (author of Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted) says, "These cats are living their nine lives (that's 18 in total) to the fullest of their auricular nimbosity, making deft punkts pointedly in this great remiaou remeow remix, tessellating their oscillatory cattongues to take us beyond the veil to the catasubtonic world of gneonsticistic dreams, in this tasty neon mignon gnom noms, an aural gnomon taking the light and turning it dark to part the conceptual curtain (vale veil!) to allow us to gaze upon the performances on night's stage."
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One of those "a kangaroo fell on me" days.  From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #falling #kangaroo
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Old News (permalink)
I know the answer is supposed to be "bicycle," but there are so very many flavors of ice cream yet untasted.  "365 ice cream cones or a bicycle."  From The Instructor, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #hand #ice cream #vintage headline #headline #choices
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Character Analysis In Condensed Form by Ona Marie Rasher, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #character reading #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #statue #column #melting architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Third Golden Rule Book, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Devil's Passkey."  From Wid's Daily, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #imp #devil #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Foliate mask."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Journal of the Fortean Research Center, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #silhouette #light and darkness
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A ghost and her ghost dog.  From Ghost Stories, 1926.
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#ghost #ghost dog #spirit photography
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Yeshiva's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #transformation #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cartooning
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #bat #owl #fairy tale #costume #brothers grimm #caught in a net #white owl #owl costume #white owlet #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hence, loathed Melancholy,
Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born
In Stygian cave forlorn,
'Mongst horrid shapes and shrieks and sights unholy!
—Milton: L'Allegro
From Weird Tales, 1939, illustrated by Virgil Finlay.
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#vintage illustration #hell #milton
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Technology Trap by Leo Moser.
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#vintage illustration #robot #technology #cyborg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We find this to be true -- in any bottle containing multiple ghosts, approximately ten percent will be wearing Groucho glasses.  From Swarthmore's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bottled ghost
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 2005.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A Japanese Madonna."  From Ethos, 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 #japanese #halo #madonna
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Old News (permalink)
"Judge will hyonotize all bad boys and girls brought into his court."  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.
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#hypnotism #vintage headline #headline
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September 3, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Elected solitude."  From Ethos, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #solitude #illustration #headline
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Old News (permalink)
These headlines about "pupil-centered teaching" "to help them teach themselves" (from The Instructor, 1961 and 1957) recall the hilarious People Like Us (1999), episode 6.
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#vintage headline #learning #teaching
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But you've got to believe in something!"  From Purple Parrot, 1943.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #belief #on all fours
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
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#vintage illustration #angel #magic wand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Claude Rains, The Clairvoyant.  From The Film Daily, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage hollywood #clairvoyant #hollywood #claude rains
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The strangest things always happen to the most ordinary people ... and that's what makes it strange!"  From Weird Tales, 1943.
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#strange
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Millennial Star, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #book #faces in things #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Wesleyan College's 1965 yearbook.
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#witch #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #classroom #teacher
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
* There is a vast world of reality into which science can no more enter than an elf can be Santa Claus.  We regret to observe that rather than face it, and confess its inability to measure it, science turns its back upon it.  Life is not always every-day life, and the insolvable mysteries are correlated not to formal rules but to spirit and inspiration.  Are bits of wisdom liable to dwarf the subject?  Indeed — and rightly!  James Howell described the ingredients of a good proverb to be "sense, shortness, and salt."  May Howell's cry resound through this present collection of maxims on believing in one's elf.

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#elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #music #faces #illustration #sour note #bad music
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
By G. E. Little for the 1893 yearbook of the University of Kansas.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world
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Old News (permalink)
"Ice shower.  Hard raindrops are falling on their heads—but why?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1978.
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#ice #vintage headline #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There's no comparing college students from a century ago to today.  From Northeastern's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #hat #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A Crow is a Crow for ever."  From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #crow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Swarthmore's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#wizard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice in Wonderland, A Dramatization by Alice Gerstenberg, 1915.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Missing Men, by Christopher Bush:

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There was, for instance, the matter of Chaice's hat.

***

Bonus: A fictitious(?) book line called the Laurel Library, published by Parsley and Branch (helmed by one Harold Parsley).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The obliterated Buddha."  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #buddha
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September 2, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A walnut fairy from Our White Violet by Kay Spen and illustrated by T. L. Wales, 1869.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #walnut
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #devil #hell #burned alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's Hopkinsian yearbook of 1893.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #strange light
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #bird man #rooster costume #illustration #art
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Old News (permalink)
Random cooking.  From Woroni, 1986.
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#chef #vintage headline #cooking #smiling man #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Dope makes people gay."  From The Gateway, 1979.
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#vintage headline #gay #dope #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The True Story of Humpty Dumpty by Anna Alice Chapin, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you take formal showers.  From Tuft's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #top hat #shower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Haunters of the Silences by Charles George Douglas Roberts, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #silence #polar bear
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Old News (permalink)
"There is just no way not to believe it."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Devil's X-ray for new arrivals to Hell on a goat.  From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #x-ray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #crying #state of the world
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This motto is a Googlewhack: "When we eat, let us eat forever."  From Hampden-Syndey's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The trim little figure made a most elaborate bow."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The 1950s fad of wearing mismatched shoes.  From Ball State University's 1958 yearbook.

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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoe #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Chiron's farewell to the Argonauts."  From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 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 #mythology #ship #centaur #chiron #argonauts
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September 1, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited throughout "Pyrzqxgl or, How To Do Things with Magic Words" by Dennis Wilson Wise, in The Baum Bugle.
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#magic words
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the wicked fox.  From Chatterbox, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #hidden picture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1959.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #rocket #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A new hat can offer a fresh attitude, so here are two, just in case they might go with what you're wearing.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #magician #turban #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #animals #goose #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 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 #fairy tale #donkey #lion skin
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If you know the stars, you know the person."  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.
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#astrology #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's candy animals exercising are from The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 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 #animals #candy #living toys #tiny animal
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the rest of the picture. (You probably guessed it.) From Woroni, 1963.

 From Woroni, 1963.
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#beard #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The sign of the greedy pig.  From Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 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 #pig #pub sign #sign #greedy
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From North Adams' 1985 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hat #tin foil hat #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"September starts like a bat out of Hell!"  From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #on fire #calendar #september #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tuft's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We checked, and it's a fair statement.  From Woroni, 1965.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #harpy #human headed #bird people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daddy's Bedtime Fairy Stories by Mary Graham Bonner, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #man in the moon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #occult #elephant #esoteric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  As wearers of genuine mop wigs, we confirm the authenticity of this photo.  From York Junior's 1965 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 yearbook #yearbook #wig #1960s #vintage man #man #smiling man #mop hair #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Curled up on the best rug."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #sleeping cat #kitten
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