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, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Given inflation, that $885 Studebaker is equivalent to $28,000.  From Collier's, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #tarzan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let me look into the box."  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 #anthropomorphism #faces in things #yarn ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spider professor sharpens its nose pencil to give students an "F."  From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A duck with a key.  From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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Old News (permalink)
"Adult delinquency."  From Lighted Pathway, 1956.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Having friends over sure can light up an evening.  From the Wizardry Gaiden: The Third Episode: Scripture of the Dark handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan (1915).
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Sundials (permalink)
Just as no two people see the external world in exactly the same way, and no two people ever see the same rainbow, nobody decodes the same time on a sundial.  Photo from Sacred Heart's 1947 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A little potion, just in case.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And when the evening comes."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1971 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This illustration was captioned "Religion."  From Mars Hill's 1927 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1964.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1946 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A private nurse asks: "Which would you choose ... your sister's shame or your own disgrace?"  From The Film Daily, 1940.
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#vintage ad #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman #shame #disgrace #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From How Firm a Foundation, by Patrick Dennis:

***
She introduced him to Father Somebody who was dressed all in black and to a Mister Someone Else, dressed all in white.
[Then, in the next sentence, Father Somebody is referred to as Father Whoever.]

***
Neither in nor out, the pocket flaps rose like the ears of a jackass.
***

Bonuses:

1. "a Miró forgery by Miró himself"

2. We've seen lots of eyebrow "punctuation marks" in literature, but this novel one-ups that by means of foreign-language eyebrow punctuation marks: a circonflexe and then a pair of tildes.
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Old News (permalink)
"Two-headed boy center of mixup."  From The Duluth Herald, 1911.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont College's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #flower people #vintage yearbook #1960s #hat #flower pot #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #owl
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September 29, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #chicken #aesop #rooster
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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 #rat #cheese
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas Gowing.
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#vintage illustration #beard #centaur
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #money #vintage headline #headline #dime
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Precursors (permalink)
"The very dress of the picture lady," from St. Nicholas, 1915.  This is a precursor to the finding of a dress pictured in a haunted portrait in Dark Shadows.
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#dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"Gentle is the dark."  From Together, 1973.
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#darkness #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The tin-can telephone, though considered low-tech, made for more interesting conversations.  From Scribner's 1876.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #birds #carried away #the people could fly #aloft #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #monster #devil dog #demon dog #hell hound #hell dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan (1921).
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of 38 Playboy bunny mascots in Thornton Junior College's 1959 yearbook (a phenomenon that goes unexplained).

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #tree #lemon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manhattanville's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #knight #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales of the Open for Little Folks by Virginia Louise Brooks, 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 #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1946 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #chalkboard #teacher #1940s
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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 #book design #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McGill's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #hazing #kicked
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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September 28, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Adjusting for the time since this headline, the Devil is now only 2,653 years old.  From Reality Magazine, 1939.
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#devil #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #shoe #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Doodles made while not listening to a church sermon.  From Together, 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 #faces #doodle #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Old News (permalink)
Like Bigfoot, we've put down roots in places as unreal as Ohio.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1990.
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#bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Edda and the Oak by Elia Wilkinson Peattie and illustrated by Katherine Merrill, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan (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 #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #vintage man #man
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #dinner party #coffee #vintage headline #party crasher #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwest Texas State Teachers College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #papoose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He's currently appearing in Colorado Springs at the Garden of the Gods.  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Clue Book.
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#vintage illustration #mask #deity #rock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Live with us and be a rabbit."  From Good Times on Our Street by Gates, Huber, Peardon and Salisbury, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Fox's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flowers #seasons #snowflake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #tiger #up a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #hand tinted
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some pearls incubate as little Buddhas.  From Harper's, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #buddha #pearl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McGill's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #commerce
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"All that glitters is not paid for."  From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1930s #bling
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Worrisome: the jury of Father Time's courtroom is not synchronized.  From Wake Forest College's 1932 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clockface
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #astrology #zodiac
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A crossfade between two houses created a moment of architecture that otherwise doesn't exist.  "On this night, the voices may be heard."  From Dark Shadows episiode 280.
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September 27, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat #spotted cat
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1965.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #goat #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We double-checked, and there are indeed worse ways to go than to be buried in discarded buttercream.  From Buried in Buttercream by G. A. McKevett.
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#mystery novel #cake #buttercream #icing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #angel #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you meet Major Daimyos today, may be on your side.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #samurai
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #little red riding hood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #elves #brownies #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Consult Your Own Feelings, John!  Never mind this one's opinion or that—your own feelings are the best guide."  From Cosmopolitan (1918).
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#vintage ad #vintage men #men #feelings #ad
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Sundials (permalink)
Railroad tracks as a sundial.  From Montreat-Anderson's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #railroad tracks
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Fox's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #macramé
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A birthday cake for the mind."  From Collier's, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dancing #birthday cake #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig man #animal headed #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #pig head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #timepiece #clock #1960s #cuckoo clock #cuckoo bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McGill's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #hippo #dentist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It would be nice if life had its cheering sections.  From Purple Parrot, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #it takes a cheering section
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Ackroyd, by Jules Feiffer:

[Note: Just to show it's making an effort, this book begins with a series of missing parakeets.]

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With each drag he sucks more life out of the office. By the end of his cigar he will have inhaled my desk, my chair, and my gold-leafed name on the door.

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The double exclamation points speak for themselves: they look like bulging eyes under astonished eyebrows.

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We base our opinions of present people on previous judgments of past people. So we’re always arriving at final judgments one person too late.

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Size without presence: the closer he gets to you, the smaller and lighter he becomes, so that seated a few feet away he appears virtually transparent.

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No one walks into a party without having a far better party going on inside his head. Every party is going to be that party until we get there. So the key to the boredom and tension at parties is that no one wants to be at the party he’s at, he wants to be at the party he’s missing.

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Moving forward as if he’s moving backward, he hands me the paper.

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He fits into his mood changes as if they are custom-made.

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Seventeen East 61st Street is a townhouse stolen out of Henry James.

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I rise like a phoenix out of my rabbit hole.

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We exchange stares in the darkness; it is like glaring in braille.

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Annabelle chatters on, increasingly hard to listen to, like being tuned in to two radio stations at the same time.

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For a month I managed to get up early enough to catch the book napping, got ninety pages done that way, but then the book caught on. Now, as early as I rise, the book is up before me, fighting me from the moment my eyes open. I haven’t been able to outfox it, so I am ignoring it. Thus I have resumed the diary, hoping it will make the book feel bad.
But now I am as self-conscious on the diary as I am on the book. I have to control myself from being literary, have to fake a relaxed tone. This entry is a second draft!

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“Why don’t you give yourself a deadline?”
“The journalist in me has asked that question; the novelist in me refuses to dignify it with an answer.”

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“We drank a toast in your honor with hot chocolate tonight”....
Hot chocolate? Is that an innocuous remark or a put-down?

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Tina points to a circling parakeet.
[This parakeet is fanciful, not real, and is an echo of the parakeets from hundreds of pages earlier in the book. Just to show us that the parrot theme hasn't been completely forgotten, I suppose. Toucans, pshaw!]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (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 #pixie #ex libris #bookplate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Knights of the hobby horse."  From Park College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #beard #anthropomorphism #monkey
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September 26, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Note the spirit guitar.  How could a seance parlor floorplan be applicable to one's own living space?  The surprising answer is within Seance Parlor Feng Shui.  From The Psychical Review, 1893.
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#occult #vintage diagram #seance parlor #diagram #floorplan
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #standup comedy
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"Find the wolf."  From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #little red riding hood #hidden picture
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Playing a banjo on the way down a waterfall.  From Lighted Pathway, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #banjo #canoe #backsliding
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
postcard from our personal archives.
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#edinburgh #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A smoke demon from Wizardry Encyclopedia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Grace and the graceless."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #modern art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #devil #cycling #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blindfolded #hazing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Runaway Equator by Lilian Bell and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #equator
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Fox's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1876.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Angelo State's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #ram #yearbook #sheep #rambouillet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mother kept screaming through the wire about my underwear."  From Biltmore Oswald by J. Thorne Smith and illustrated by Richard Dorgan, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #mother #underwear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #dice #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As wearers of genuine mop wigs, we confirm the authenticity of this photo.  From Gannon College's 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #cross dressing #vintage man #mop hair #mop wig
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Old News (permalink)
"Ninth day of zero weather."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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September 25, 2022

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's been said that an uplifting speaker can light up an audience.  Here's what it looks like.  From Tufts' 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light in darkness #photo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I can't because I'm dead."  From The Rosicrucian Magazine, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #angel #hourglass
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Play a variant of Clue / Cluedo with this floorplan and list of items that poltergeists moved during a two-week period (between the new moon of June 25th, 1923, and the full moon of July 9th), as reported in Quarterly Transactions of the British College of Psychic Science.
  • key
  • raw potato
  • dishcloth
  • thimble
  • candlestick
  • night-light
  • brooch
  • curtain ring
  • ball of wool
  • steel pliers
  • breakfast handbell
  • teapot spout
  • china powder box
  • cheese knife
  • glass-cutter
  • teapot lid
  • sixpence
  • cup and saucer
  • silver cigarette case
  • box of matches
  • thimble
  • cottons
  • milk jugs
  • lemon squeezer
  • glass inkpot
  • chain necklet
  • ink pen
  • bread and bread-board
  • apron
  • tobacco pipe
  • small doll
  • safety pins
  • counterpane
  • shoes
  • silver salt spoon
  • looking glass
  • soap dish
  • comb
  • hairpins
  • magazine
  • pillow
  • chair
  • rubber ball
  • ornamental plate
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#floorplan #poltergeist #list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #barber #robot #hairdresser
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Old News (permalink)
From Don't Go To Work on Mondays by Anahad O'Connor.
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#vintage headline #monday #headline #bad advice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1979 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan (1916).
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#vintage illustration #dandies #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #parrot
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Sundials (permalink)
"As a shadow - such is life."  A sundial from Wittenberg's 1956 yearbook.
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#sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Spell of Seven, edited by L. Sprague De Camp.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #medusa #gorgon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From George Fox's 1978 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #figurine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Crowling kelp."  From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #kelp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Library gnomes from Indiana University's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gnome #vintage yearbook #yearbook #library
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here, at long last, is the apology you've been waiting for.  From The Apology by Max Hampton.
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#apology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Collier's, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #rip van winkle #uncle sam #rifle
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #lion #lamb #vintage headline #headline #lion and lamb
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College'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 #bell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #antelope
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's talking teeth are from Northwestern University's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #teeth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #scales #libra
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September 24, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"My pill-doctor!"  From Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen by F. Anstey, 1803.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #doctor #pills
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #witch #magick #occult #oz
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#giant #1920s #tall and short
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#fox #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #involvement
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Do you count sheep at night or lions!"  From The Film Daily, 1940.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #insomnia #sleepless #sheep #counting sheep #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
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#vintage illustration #tree #hollow tree #oak
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bahamut Senki handbook.
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#vintage illustration #wizard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man #golem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan (1898).
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cigar #dandies #1890s #vintage men #men #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Angelo State's 1974 yearbook and Arrested Development.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #arrested development #flying car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #tree #faces in things #tree face #tree people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #on fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #global warming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Skyward and Back Again by Lucy Robinson, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #water nymph
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Old News (permalink)
"Time for a second look."  From Together, 1969.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Mitchell College's 1973 yearbook.  Speaking of "Don't Walk" signs, see Crossroads Chiromancy: The Secrets of the Glowing Red Hands.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double #sign #don't walk #crosswalk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #statue
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This reminds us of that bizarre music video with ghost candles.  From Lenoir Rhyne's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#christianity #vintage yearbook #candle #1960s #ghost candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's tiger seen through a jester's kaleidoscope is from Hampden-Sydney College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #tiger #kaleidoscope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #gryphon
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September 23, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How do broomsticks fly?  Here's a spoiler.  From Elfie's Visit to Cloudland and the Moon by Frances Austen, 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 #elf #broom #enchanted broom #flying broomstick
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Thanks to Adrian Black for tweeting praise of our Neons Gone Mad clockwork cover of The Cure's "Close to Me."  "Hauntingly good"!
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#neons gone mad #haunted clockwork #the cure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Strange Maine, illustrated by Peter Farrow.  We love this sort of anthology that seems hell-bent to convince readers that the locality in question is plagued by vampires, werewolves, ghost ships, sea serpents, aliens, flying carpets, and other haunting anomalies.  Every region should have one!  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror #maine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #science fiction #monster #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #horse #revenge #tables turned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #aura #frog
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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 #owl #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Terror under the influence of water."  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #hydrophobia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From McClure's (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 #fear #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern'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 #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's said that we need the right tool for the right job.  Here's a dagger of speed and a dragon's claw sword, just in case.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #sword #dagger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #effigy #gallows #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #roman #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #clown
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From My Sister Eileen, by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov:

***

APPOPOLUS: In New York you either live, A, over a subway, or, B, where they are building a subway, or, C, you don't live in New York!
RUTH: Stop double-talking the alphabet and give us our money back!

[Bonus]
BAKER: We can go right down the street--there's a bar at the Parrot's Cage.
[Apparently, "they" were right! The toucan has not replaced the classic parrot. (:v>]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #bird #chicken
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Sundials (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1903 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #nest #up a tree
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September 22, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Trust the happy moments."  From Together, 1969.
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#happiness #vintage headline #advice #happy #headline
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Old News (permalink)
Before the "tiny house" fad, there were "Petite Homes of Budget Appeal" (1935).
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#vintage headline #tiny house #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jewish Fairy Book, translated by Gerald Friedlander and illustrated by George Hood, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #endpapers #castle in the air #jewish
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly to Marion, Arkansas.  We didn't even bother noting the correct time—our brains were too scrambled.
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#temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of talking birds giving testimony in court.  Here's what it looks like.  From Chatterbox, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #courtroom
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Old News (permalink)
"Donkeys need their privacy, too."  From [Conestoga] Spoke, 2004.
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#donkey #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #worry
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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 #lion #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #snake #medicine #venom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #archer #illustration #the people could fly #winged men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Encyclopedia.
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#vintage illustration #wolf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #illustration #razor #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cinderella #glass slipper
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A coin box cat.  From The Life, History, and Magic of the Cat by Fernand Méry.
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#cat #money box #coin box
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage gay #gay
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Sundials (permalink)
All seven of them are looking the wrong way.  It's the shadow on the sundial that tells the time, you poor misguided fools.  Ah, bless.  From Pfeiffer's 1983 yearbook.
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#sundial #staring at the sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #snake #bow and arrow #native american #iroquois
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
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#vintage illustration #surreal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A steamboat's stateroom door lock.  From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #keyhole #door and key #door knob #1880s
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Old News (permalink)
"We start out walking and learn to run [as if for our very lives?]"  From Mitchell College's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #run for your life #headline #run don't walk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The first trouble with him is that his face doesn't fit.  From Collier's, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage men #men
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September 21, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #tea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse
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Old News (permalink)
"When your faith is threatened."  From Together, 1965.
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#religion #vintage illustration #faith #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This remains the most dramatic way to show someone a new wall hanging -- a dark room, a very bright lamp in the eyes, and the element of surprise.  From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett and illustrated by Charles S. Chapman, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #painting
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#unsolicited #thanks but no thanks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #harp #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wonder Tales from Russia by Jeremiah Curtin, 1921.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf #russian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Make ready!  Aim!  Dust!"  From Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells, 1892. 
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#vintage illustration #dust #dusting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fifty Years Ago by Walter Besant (1892).
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#vintage illustration #mirror #dandy #shaving #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Am I too late?"  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 #fairy #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Time and Tigers by D. R. Amato. 
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#vintage illustration #astronaut #alien #spaceman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1876.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Albion College's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #penny-farthing #dandy #mustache #1940s #penny farthing
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Nearing the end."  From Harper's, 1879.
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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 #ocean #lightning
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Sympathy fades for mythical fowl."  Even weirder: 10% of every donation to the Church of Bigfoot goes toward reviving sympathy for mythical fowl.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Menelaus and Paris."  From Chatterbox, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #warrior #trojan war #sparta
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #musicians #tambourine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We're flashing back to that time we were trapped within a shattered hall of mirrors From Mirrors In Mind by R. L. Gregory.
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#mirror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Let the juice squirt where it will."  From Hedding College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #knife #orange #illustration #juice #orange juice
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September 20, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Adjusting for inflation, that $50,000 piano would be worth over $1,680,000 today.  From Mrs. Raffles by John Kendrick Bangs and illustrated by Albert Levering, 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 #piano
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two crows in the corner of an illustration in Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #crow #blackbird #birds #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage magic #magic #talking skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Carbonel, The King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh and illustrated by V. H. Drummond.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #cat #clock tower
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Sundials (permalink)
"Lumen me regit," guided by the light.  From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1978 yearbook.
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#sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #flowers #flower fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The flowers lifted themselves toward the radiant sun goddess."  From Myths and Legends of Australia by A. W. Reed and illustrated by Roger Hart.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #solar deity #goddess #sun god #aboriginal #flowers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1942 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #birdhouse
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Love the video glitch -- it looks like she has the demons in her head that she speaks of.  "You are a demon!  The demons in me are in league with you!"  From Dark Shadows episode 1205.
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#demon #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #heart #vintage headline #headline #contentment
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From New Jersey State Teachers College's 1933 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #violin #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #knitting
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Arsenic and Old Lace, by Joseph Kesselring:

***

[Mortimer is a drama critic.]
ELAINE: You ought to be fair to these plays.
MORTIMER: Are these plays fair to me?
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From The Sun by C. A. Young, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #sun #eclipse #corona #solar eclipse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #musician #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #mask #drummer #1870s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's how any castle can also be a "castle in the air."  From Muskingum College's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Old News (permalink)
Before The Flying Nun, there wad the flying friar.  From Fate Magazine, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #monk #levitation #weightless #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you ever wondered how engineers get the two sides of a bridge to meet, here's the secret.  From Purdue University's 1891 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bridge #1890s #engineer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting #uncle sam
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September 19, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #transformation #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #widdershins #grevusanjl
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Old News (permalink)
It's never too late.  "Woman 108 years old gets money."  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#money #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
When was the last time you dreamed about caricatures?  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 #caricature #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Tar Heel, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #devil #hand of god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #giant #boots #ogre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The vital force."  From The Film Daily, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #genie #occult #esoteric #vital force
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Soviet Sputniks, 1958. 
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#vintage illustration #ufo #sputnik #satellite #hitchhiker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #fairy tale #donkey headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Saturday Evening Post (1909).
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #vintage men #men
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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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#silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #butterfly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois State's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Past Eight O'Clock by Joan Aiken and illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #dragon #teapot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
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#vintage illustration #fire #forest fire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Herald, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cat #balloon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
They swam laps on the ceiling.  From the University of Michigan's 1942 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #swimming pool
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #animal headed #shape shifter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Sad stories listened to ... 29¢ per hour.  Sobs 10¢ extra.  Tears 15¢ extra.  Payment in advance."  According to the inflation calculator, one hour of a sob story would now cost $1.60.  An added sob would cost 55 cents, and tears 83 cents.
From Rutgers University's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#sign #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Sounds like a mystery novel title: "Dowsing for murder."  From Fate Magazine, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #pendulum #dowsing #vintage headline #headline
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September 18, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the great film Earth Girls Are Easy.  From Galaxy Magazine, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #earth girls are easy
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Old News (permalink)
Were your own relatives hanged in Salem, or were they merely well-endowed?  The headline reads, "My relatives were hung in Salem."  From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#witchcraft #hanging #hanged #salem #vintage headline #headline #hung
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
Do not remove ghost from pocket.  From the rare The Discontented Ghost by Scott Corbett, 1978.
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#ghost #library book #non-circulating book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1924 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook #secret society #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #saw #squirrel #out on a limb #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mysterious Stranger by John Tinney McCutcheon, 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 #locked door #door #lock #padlock #exit #no exit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The use of mesmerism during wrestling matches.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #mesmerism #hypnotism #vintage men #men #wrestling
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Sundials (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1937 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #poltergeist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado State's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #calendar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hot air balloon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy's Own Paper, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #dunce #jackass #before and after
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bouquet #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rifle
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Old News (permalink)
"No matter how good your intentions are, sometimes monotony sets in."  From Lighted Pathway1988.
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#vintage headline #good intentions #monotony #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"There was a bright, bright light far away and I just looked at it out of the window."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2005.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's all well and fine to name cats, but give me a single name a cat will answer to over a thousand others.  From Name That Cat by Doug Cassidy.
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#cat
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We spotted a temporal anomaly in Dartmouth College's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #night photography #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Murray Hill's Gallery of Publishers":

He looked at me with such a beaming brightness of eye that he appeared to be all lighted up inside like a cathedral.
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#cathedral
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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 #anthropomorphism #faces in things #knitting
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September 17, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The highly rare Fortello Crystal Ball sold in 1953 for $4.95, which the inflation calculator says is more like $55 today.  Made of glass (approximately 5 inches in diameter) and filled with a thick black liquid, it was crafted by Larno Novelties of New York.  It worked like a Magic 8 Ball: when shaken and turned upside down, little playing cards inside the ball floated to the top to tell one's fortune.  Its full name was "Fortello: The Gypsy Crystal: A Fortune Telling Game."  We found a photo on an auction site of one owned by a magician.  The ads are from Mystic Magazine and Fate Magazine, 1954, when it had gone down in price to $3.75 (about $42 today).  Larno Novelties is itself so little known that we could find only a single ad mentioning them by name, for a lucky fishing lure.
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#vintage ad #crystal ball #fortune telling #1950s
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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 #cat #bunny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #anthropomorphism #mouse #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The genie of his old school assignments.  From Purple Parrot, 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 #genie #djinn
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Something, Defined (permalink)
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Old News (permalink)
We'll have to disagree with this headline.  From Lighted Pathway, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #advice #disagreement #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He wrote to the rats."  From St. Nicholas, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rat
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
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#psychology #furniture #couch #sofa
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
François Joullain, ‘Habit de Furie,’ 1725 (via EnchantedBook).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #costume #snake hair #fury
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A ghost stuck to the wall.  From the Dungeon Master strategy 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 #ghost
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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 #beard #barber #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary'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 #fraternities #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Autumn preparedness."  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 #owl #autumn #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Bigfoot walking through the 1987 Ole Miss yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bigfoot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May it be true for you, too -- "Just as like as not you'll come out of this affair alive."  From The Century, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #survival #making it #getting through
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #privacy #headline #never alone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gun #candle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1942 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
What's the square root of a pink cat with blue tail a changed schedule, two green socks, and Miss Prong?  From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #math #square root
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Frankly, my standards are so high I wouldn't give myself more than a B."  From The Old Line, 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 #professor #high standards
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September 16, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling when you're the only one who can see the floating head.  From Peterson's Magazine, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #floating head #1880s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cynic's Rules of Conduct by Chester Field, 1905.
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#house guest
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Sundials (permalink)
An illustration from a 1903 issue of Punch magazine.  The caption reads: "Confound it, the beastly thing's stopped!"
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#vintage illustration #sundial #time stopped #illustration #stopped time #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #severed heads #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May today's quasi-legendary lawgivers impose no penalties on you today.  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 #lycurgus #lawgiver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1950 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blue devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #gallows #vintage yearbook #hanged man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sea life #under the sea #diver #stingray
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1965.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From the University of Michigan's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #hazing #1940s
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #self awareness #headline #know thyself
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#skull #darkness #night #survival
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Single Season Sitcoms, 1948-1979, by Bob Leszczak:

***
This sitcom about a widower with two sons replaced another sitcom about a widower with two sons. Neither was successful.

***
Coincidentally, The Queen and I [a sitcom about a seagoing vessel headed for the scrap heap] left the prime time schedule on May 1, 1969 (May Day).
***

Bonus: An episode (of some sitcom or other) called "Follow the Broken Pretzel"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask #1870s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #penguin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #cyclops #Polyphemus
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"It's funny how fast the weather changes. Don't you think it's funny? [Curious music.] [Ominous music.]"  From Dark Shadows, episode 167.
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#weather #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"'Please believe me, I'm not crazy.'  The beginning of many anonymous e-mails or phone calls."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2005.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #musical notes #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #singing #glee club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Milo Winter, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #giant #elves
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September 15, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #chair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #faces in things #heart #stomach #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Get out of my house.  You shan't stay one minute with your books!"  From Improvement Era, 1947.
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#vintage illustration
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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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Old News (permalink)
"There was a notice about a missing cat.  How spooky is that?" 
Well, it sort of depends upon what cat, exactly, is now suddenly at large.
Headline via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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#cat #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #prophecy #biblical #prophet #daniel
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Out-of-Body Exploring by Preston Dennett.
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#astral body #out of body #astral plane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Encyclopedia.
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The horses floated downward."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horse #flying horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat deity #tibet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #cigar #hat #visor
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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 #elephant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Richmond Professional's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Farmer's Magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
God may not play dice with the universe, but Goddess does.  From Lebanon Valley's 1952 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #dice #goddess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1965.
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#devil #good and evil #vintage headline #headline #right and wrong
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Premeditated bum."  From Lasell Female Seminary's 1893 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #sailor
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Old News (permalink)
"Hairline most likely to recede by 2284."  From Indiana University's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #croquet #flamingo
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September 14, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Raising Arizona, in which "When there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."  When there was no beer, they drank chalk dust.  From Indiana University's 1951 yearbook.
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#beer #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chalkboard #raising arizona
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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 #constellation #hercules
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"But when sleep does come, a strange mist seeps in through the open window."  From Forbidden Worlds, number 20.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #sleep #dreaming #horror #mist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let's do get together sometime for lunch."  From Purple Parrot, 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 #dentures #false teeth #joke
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magonia, 2002.
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#vintage illustration #question mark #faceless #no face
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see how the witch transforms him.
From Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 1954.

Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 1954
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#beard #witch #cauldron #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #raccoon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1942.
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#balancing act #vintage photo #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"On the brink."  From The Century, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cliff
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's an enduring question.  How Did I Get Here by Barbara De Angelis.
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#you are here
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Encyclopedia.
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#vintage illustration #potion #bottle
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #boat #duck #spyglass
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #war
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #skyscraper
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1980.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #gloom #depression #dark cloud
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1927 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #horse #knight #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #hooded figure #nuclear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1921 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #illustration #bookplate
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"The Tempest is a dream, or presents life as a dream" (Anthony B. Dawson, Indirections: Shakespeare and the Art of Illusion, 1978).  From Valparaiso University's 1968 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#shakespeare #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #the tempest #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A cat three times as big as an ox."  By Pamela Colman Smith.  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #giant cat #tiny man #pamela colman smith
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September 13, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to cassette label Land-O-Newts for saying, "The work of Craig Conley is a rabbit hole I happily fell into."
(Illustration from Of All Things! by Robert Benchley, 1921.)
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#newt
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's boxing coyotes are from Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #boxing #coyote #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Strangely Enough! by C. B. Colby.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #full moon #moonlight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What a surprising old advertisement for milk -- when nibbling on a witch's candy house, don't forget to drink milk.  That way you'll have stronger bones and vitality when the witch lures you into her stove.  From Purple Parrot, 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 #vintage ad #witch #hansel and gretel #candy house #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Great news (except for those who practice yoga): "Posture is not the important thing."  From Lighted Pathway, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #prayer #posture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A massive beard and a peg leg.  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 #beard #peg leg
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How true those words are, even today.  "Going Hollywood" is a mental disease.  From Harpers, 1932.
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#hollywood
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The feeling is that if and when he does speak, he will have quite a lot to say."  From Dark Shadows episode 1192.
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#dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Something tells me this one won't be a page turner.  Slow Reading by John Miedema.
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#book cover #snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From K Svetu, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bull #red sky #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Busy Folk by Mary E. Laing & Andrew W. Edson and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #snow #ant
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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.
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#vintage illustration #bird #crab
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Fairy-Folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fairy boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Knox College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #dandies #vintage men #men #pet walker
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Sundials (permalink)

Prof. Oddfellow shares his secrets to longevity:

Delay your mid-life crisis.  As per Zeno, if you never reach your mid-point, you'll never reach your end.

Abhor setting your clocks to atomic time.

Learn to take long-exposure photographs at night.  Long exposures open a hole in the fabric of Time.  The click of the camera extends from a moment into minutes.  Try it and you'll instantly feel how you stop aging.  (If not, ask a doctor to accompany you on your night walk to monitor your eleven medical symptoms and signs of aging as you take long-exposure photographs.)

To mark off days on a calendar is to ensure that your days are numbered.  Never ever cross off a day, no matter how loathsome.

Eschew wearing a wristwatch; a wristwatch leaves a mark — the mark of Time.

Investigate adjusting your circadian rhythm to a 25-hour day.  Make every day count that little bit extra.  Indeed, have "two Saturday nights in a Friday night, if you know what I mean" (as John Michael Higgins says in Best in Show).

Spend more time at the beach.  It's a fallacy that the ocean makes one feel insignificant; on the contrary, one small step over tiny shells (each a life story) and ancient grains of sand (each an entire world, as per the immortal William Blake) is one giant leap for mankind.


Prof. Oddfellow reads his sundials at night.
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#sundial #long exposure #cathedral #longevity #oddfellow #night photography #st. augustine #temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #injured #wobbly legs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any level 6 ninjas fight for you, not against you, today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #ninja
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1880.
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#vintage illustration #angel #stained glass #window
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

***
[Says an actor about one series]
"It had a certain 'whatever'" [meaning je ne sais quoi]

***

[Says an actor from Life with Snarky Parker]

"My part was the best--Heathcliff the horse [see below], a 2-year-old horse who sat in bed and read poetry."
[Btw, Life with Snarky Parker was a puppet program that had the dual distinctions of being directed by Yul Brynner, and replaced by UN General Assembly coverage when it was canceled.]
***

Bonus: According to the author, when Arlene Francis died, Kitty Carlisle Hart, who was often confused with Francis, got phone calls "to see if she was the one who passed away."


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pelican versus kitten: which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #cat #pelican #animal fight #kitten
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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 #milk #long tail #prehensile
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September 12, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Questioning sprays of paradise."  From Vanity Fair, 1914.  [Hat tip: Jonathan.]

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to home-recording pioneer Ken Clinger, who wrote:
I unfortunately let my canary watch this video. It ended up cheating at canasta by flying back and forth on its portable international dateline (to thwart other canasta players’ previous moves) by distracting them with a disturbingly long mustache, while wearing “antlers” made from a skeleton hand, while demanding that its picture be taken. This was the beginning of my own desperate times, which I hope to get past (but into the future), by using several portable international datelines lined up in a row.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #jonathan caws-elwitt
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Old News (permalink)
"Wedding ring and cow bell."  From Improvement Era, 1933.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage headline #headline #more cowbell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #elephant
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This says that one can be exceedingly attractive with only two of the seven points of beauty.  Whew!  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #beauty #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
It's like every time I close my eyes.  From The Tour of Doctor Syntax In Search of the Picturesque, illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1866.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #books #dreaming #human headed #1860s #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From No Animals We Could Name by Ted Sanders.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid
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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 #ufo #strange light #vintage photo #artist #mental impression
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1899 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #owl #secret #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #illustration #whispering #giant owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #elves #bird bath
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chicken #crying #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning how to hide."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#angel #hiding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #hunter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This could be us, looking around and taking notes on the last days.  From Blue Hills Technical's 1986 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #end of days #1980s
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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 #anthropomorphism #tears #firefly #crying insect
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Overland Monthly, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #bear #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #puffy sleeves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A keeper of the legends of Ireland."  From The Century, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ireland #storyteller #legends
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September 11, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From With a Wig, With a Wag, and Other American Folk Tales, edited by Jean Cothran and illustrated by Clifford Geary.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #coyote #bear #laughing animal #laughing bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #imp #angel #halo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#cat #night vision
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #goldilocks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Das XIX, Jahrhundert in Wort und Bild, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #comet #ruins #shooting star #meteor
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Old News (permalink)
We fact-checked this, and it's true: love is not what you think.  From Together, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #love #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'You didn't miss much,' Julien informed him.  For a minute questions gnawed upon Lee's silence.  He suppressed them."  From Collier's (1937).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage gay #gay #vintage men #cross dressing #men in drag
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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 ad #yeti #tramp #bigfoot #cleanliness #soap #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mythology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #prometheus #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adventures in Child Land by Frances Lilian Taylor, 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 #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #giant bug #yearbook #insect #roach #fear of insects #kafkaesque
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Hypnotism Revealed by Melvin Powers, 1956.
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#fire #hypnosis #matchstick
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Sundials (permalink)
"The deed is everything; nothing is fame" -- inscription at the base of the sundial in front of Carnegie Hall.  From Wittenberg's 1956 yearbook.
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#sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #japan #buddha
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage man #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblogging is restricted to those playing with unknown fires.  "This sheltered fairy-like child, playing with unknown fires, wasn't like another woman."  From The Crystal Heart by Phyllis Bottome and illustrated by Norman Price, 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 #women #vintage women
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog to bring back stovepipe hats.  From Park College's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hat #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Monkey versus leopard: which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey #leopard #animal fight
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September 10, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Did you take your 1973 pledge yet?  "Be kind to people by not hurting them!  Be kind to animals by not eating them!  A world without money is one step to utopia!"  From Space Drive, 1972.
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#vegetarian #utopia #pledge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We were frankly expecting a hoop skirt.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville'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 #1920s #basketball #skirt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #automaton #oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From B.A.R., 1976.
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#egyptian #fashion #vintage fashion #beetle #scarab #belt buckle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we naturally assumed that a haunted painting was coming to life once the drinking party passed out.  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 #drunk #asleep
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #dream
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is the first floorplan showing where a cow sat down that we've seen this week.  From The Queer Beasts by Arthur Acland, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #map #diagram #floorplan #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let's pretend we're rich people in separate rooms!"  From Purple Parrot, 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 #pets #indoor pet
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Old News (permalink)
For those who put the cart before the horse, this headline is inverted.  "Our sins are catching up with us."  From Lighted Pathway, 1968.
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#sin #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pchela, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #wreath #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lions #caged animal #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #fairy tale #treasure chest #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ancient Calendars and Constellations by Emmeline Plunket, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #zodiac #illustration #chinese zodiac
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dreaming #boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flying machine #trap door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #candle #the end
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #flower #heart #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Collier's (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 #dandies #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #lasso #cattle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #mountain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Eastern Kentucky's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #occult #horror #vintage yearbook #1980s
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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.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram #spirit and matter
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September 9, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Coneheads from Saturday Night Live.  From Air War College's 1965 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #conehead
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
I'm sorry, but these newfangled ESP test symbols are simply unfair.  From Psychology by Baron, Byrne & Kantowitz., 1980.
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#psychology #esp #esp symbols
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A hint of actor fatigue in the long-running Dark Shadows: "Just let me get a sandwich, and I'll be right back" (episode 50).
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#dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
All the best true stories have fictional names, it seems.  From Lighted Pathway, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
Finally!  "The return of the happy ending."  From Together, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline #happy ending
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May black dragons reach new heights.  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 #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Primer by Walter Hervey & Melvin Hix, and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #crow #gingerbread man
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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #mind #vintage headline #headline #paralysis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The two most originals are upside down.  From the State Normal School for Women's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #upside down #women #vintage women
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Sundials (permalink)
From Christian Similitudes by John Warner Barber, 1866.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #perpetual motion #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Army and Navy Game" by Mary Ellen Main.  From MacMurray's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #army navy game #field hockey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #umbrella
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From The Century, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #saint #saint jerome #st. jerome
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage man #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tongue of Time by William Harrison, 1857.
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#vintage illustration #timepiece #clock #one o'clock
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Kippered Corpse, by Margaret Scherf:

***
"Kleptomania."
"Yeah, but not the ordinary kind. I just take knobs off things. Nothing else. Only knobs."
[This bit of eccentric behavior proves to be a plot point!]

***
"He takes him by the sleeve and says, 'For God's sake, Turner....This place is swarming with cops.' I didn't see how one cop like me could swarm, but I didn't say anything."

***
He was all at once aware of the snuff-snuff of slippered feet along the carpet.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #goat #horns
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wizard #horse #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, can finish off an entire cake.  From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
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#asterisk #alice in wonderland
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September 8, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #demon #bow and arrow #antlers #horned man #cuckold #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Alone in the world."  From By Sheer Pluck by George Alfred Henty (1897).
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#vintage illustration #dandy #solitude #vintage man #alone #man
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Sundials (permalink)
Time-bending a sun dial.  From Swarthmore's 1974 yearbook.
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#sundial #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #time bending #1970s #vintage men #men #toga
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
May there be a lantern at your next crossroads.  From Missouri Southern's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crossroad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By G. Holstein.  From der Guckkasten, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #silhouette #snake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2006.
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#costume #alien #alien abduction
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#blindfold #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #playing cards #card game #1950s
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
The last time we rubbed roses on our face was the last time we rubbed roses on our face.  From Together, 1959.
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#vintage ad #vintage photo #flowers #rose #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hyena and leopard negotiate sharing a cave.  From The Alo Man, Stories of the Congo by Mara Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rollin Crampton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #leopard #hyena
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
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#vintage illustration #peacock #aesop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dances and Stories of the American Indian by Bernard Mason and illustrated by Frederic Koch.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #dancing #native american #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cursed image appears in Trinity Christian College's 1994 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #monkey #long hair #cursed
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Old News (permalink)
"'Authorities' miss point."  From the Duluth Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Along about Thursday."  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #antlers #1960s #vintage man #man #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #pirate #buccaneer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today, folks use apps to get effects like this in photos, but in the 1960s, it happened naturally.  From the College of Great Falls' 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #nun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rajpoot's Rings by F. A. Knight, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat #animal attack #night
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September 7, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
No single balloon can necessarily make one feel any sort of way, but finding exactly the right number of balloons makes all the difference.  One always knows the very moment the right number of balloons has been achieved.  From Indiana University's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #happiness #1970s #balloon #musician #vintage man #man #mood management
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Old News (permalink)
"If you see Bill or Mary, tell them 'hello!'"  From Improvement Era, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #bear #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A French 'Lit de Repose' of the 18th century, arranged with trundle or 'pull out' for their 'couchée' (bed reception)."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
King Tut is included amongst the satisfied customers.  From Purple Parrot, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #spoof ad #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey #cheese
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Old News (permalink)
"Flying saucer surgeons cured by dodgy back [for free!]"  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2005.
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#ufo #doctor #vintage headline #alien #headline #flying saucer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #mitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horror #zombie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fairy #1950s #ad
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Sundials (permalink)
Indeed, this is proper wear for visiting a sundial: bright shirt and dark pants, symbolic of the sun and the shadow.  From Tulane's 1964 yearbook.
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#sundial #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #man
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #butterfly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1900 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 #fraternities #secret society #flowers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Something is following us.  From The Wishing Tree by Ruth Chew.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #being followed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Longwood's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #witch #cauldron #prophecy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tomorrow comes early.  From Unknown magazine, 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 #time travel #night and day #tomorrow comes early
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Good luck!  Is my room a dog pound?"  From Scribner's 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Garden of Eatin'.  "Adam ate 'em; can you?"  From the University of Toledo's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #eden #apple #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Plato's idea of love was what is technically known in literature as hot stuff."  From The Outline of Everything by Hector B. Toogood, 1923.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #greek #ancient greece #plato
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Old News (permalink)
"How far is too far on a date?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1988.
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#vintage headline #dating #headline #going too far #going all the way
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September 6, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Fred Willard's "Hey, wha' happened?"  From Hartnell College's 1952 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Accidental grotesqueness in Dark Shadows, courtesy of a warped mirror and a clueless actor.  Kate Jackson betrays a malformed face as she stands waiting for her cue, mouthing her upcoming lines (as the crew bangs props offscreen), unaware that the cameras are already rolling.  It's a bizarre moment of distorted reality, all the more startling and affecting because it was unplanned.  From episode 1195.
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#haunted mirror #distortion #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
A flying goblin-shaped vacuum cleaner with two legs and wheels.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.
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#ufo #vintage headline #vacuum cleaner #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Mesmerise: A Manual of Instruction in the History, Mysteries, Modes of Procedure, and Arts of Mesmerism, or, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, Clairvoyance, Thought Reading, and Mesmeric Entertainment by Hames Coates, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #men holding hands
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Sundials (permalink)
Sundials are easier to read when a peacock is watching you -- it's a phenomenon you can prove for yourself.  From Barnard's 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you hereby be unpestered by brass dragons.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Missouri Southern's 1974 yearbook.
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#time #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lens flare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A better scan of this one.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bellows #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
With inflation, it would now cost one dollar and change to cross these gypsies' palms with silver.  From the University of Toledo's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #gypsy #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Grandmother spirit comes to the rescue.  From Myths & Legends of the Australian Aboriginals by William Ramsay Smith, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #spirit #aboriginal
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "I'm Her," by Henry Corrigan:

***

A medley of emotions played in her head, with relief providing the high notes and disappointment supplying the bass. But between them resounded an instrument she could not name, one that might have been a mix of the two, or only an echo playing along her bones.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Among the bananas."  From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #fruit #banana
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
A sandcaste in the air.  From Wheaton College's 1929 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
The giant floral clock in Fairhope, Alabama needed just a bit of pruning to adjust for six minutes.
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#temporal anomaly
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #newspaper #fake news
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Call it a Hunch (permalink)
"Luck?  A hunch?  Yet some force made him follow the strange impulse."  From Together, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #impulse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is how we hold flowers, too.  From Saint Mary's School's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hands #flowers
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Today's rabbits pulling the heads of dolls is from The Sandman: His Bunny Stories by Harry Whittier Frees, 1918.
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#anthropomorphism #rabbit #decapitated #doll
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Precursors (permalink)
Before the band A Flock of Seagulls, there was A Flock of Song Birds.  From the University of Toledo's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #singer
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Old News (permalink)
"Is it nothing to you?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1969.
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#vintage headline #nothing #headline
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September 5, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's huge burdock leaf violin is from Prue's Playmates by Amy Brooks, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #violin #leaf #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
297
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Old News (permalink)
"Peopleless town spirited away."  From The Duluth Herald, 1911.
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#vintage headline #headline #ghost town
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #crow #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #shadow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You can break the shackles of fear!"
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#vintage ad #fear #shackles #ball and chain #phobia #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Field of Clover by Laurence Housman, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #mercury #sheep #lamb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #seal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1951 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1950s #water bucket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Worlds, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #monolith #pylon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I count none but sunny hours."  From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.  We also spotted this photo of the sundial, from two decades later.

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #rabbit #baboon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog to bring trees back to cupolas.  From Tufts University's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Antiquarians computing the height to which the beds, said to have been slept in by George Washington, would reach if placed one on top of the other."  From Vanity Fair, 1914.  (Hat tip: Jonathan.)
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#vintage illustration #george washington #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A weighted blanket from Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crushed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #before and after
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The Right Word (permalink)
The name Twoodeekederdinhezeedblebbo remains a Googlewhack to this day.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1916 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tombstone #gravestone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's bunny facing the wrong way is from The Tale of Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #1920s #facing the wrong way
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September 4, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Reblog to close your eyes to something that you neither understand nor like.  From Dark Shadows episode 31.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blunder's Mystery Companions by Florence M. Pettee and illustrated by Alexander Key, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #skull #horror
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Seinfeld episode in which Elaine tries to run a clothes store called Putumayo out of business after receiving bad customer service, by shopping at the competing Cinco de Mayo, only to discover that both stores are owned by the same person.  From Tufts University's 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #frog #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Use this character in your own comics."  From Mothers News, 2013.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #spinning #tops
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alma mater
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs) and illustrated by W. Fletcher White, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #deity #native american #iroquois
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toronto Teachers' College's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #two faced #happy and sad #sun face #experience #huxley
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If people tossed lightning, deadly poison, and silence at me, I'd probably look that way, too.  Wait -- I already do look that way.  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #math
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Chimborazo.  From Scribner's, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #volcano
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Only three names are mentioned in the caption -- a blatant example of how ghosts are considered non-entities in our culture.  From the University of Toledo's 1951 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Holy Tablets.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram #third eye #occult diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fire ceremony #fire deity #bonfire #smoke deity #smoke god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The wrong saucepan."  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
How true those words are, even today.  Mister Medicine is diggin' graves.  From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #poison #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gravedigger #medicine #big science #medical profession
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Funny to see doctors trying to convince folks that they're needed for birthing, hoping we'll forget the existence of midwives.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #stork
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May no exhumations haunt your dreams tonight.  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 #horror #exhumation #symbol #disinterment
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September 3, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Sterilized good-nite kiss."  From The Plainsman, 1934.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #germs #kissing #germophobe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Primer For Beginning Psychotherapists by Cooper and Wanerman, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #heart #valentine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #train #snail #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cat #nine lives
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What a great way to demonstrate attentiveness.  From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #vintage men #men #attentive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mother Nature was standing by her door in a great coat of bearskin."  From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fur coat #mother nature #bearskin #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #giant bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  From Emerson's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #chicken
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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 #demon #devil #cave #door #gates of hell #gate of hell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Innis Herald, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #cheshire cat #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Assumption College's 1975 yearbook.

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#bicycle #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: Crusaders Of The Dark Savant Clue Book.
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#vintage illustration #cat people #cat man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #chaos #mayhem #artist #pandemonium
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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The Right Word (permalink)
The cover and title pages don't agree.
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#word
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #bald eagle #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"With the accidents of life, it is a wonder that any of us are here."  From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #ant #pitfall
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If that's an ear trumpet, perhaps she has a nasal voice.  From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #nose #ear trumpet #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hearing trumpet #big nose
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Old News (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #up all night #midnight oil #vintage headline #headline
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September 2, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Is that a concept or a buzzard?"  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #telescope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Look About Us by Gerald Craig, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #porcupine #quills
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #gypsy #amulet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kids and The Apple by Edward Carlson, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #numbers #true and false
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A bear terrified of a kitten.  From St. Nicholas, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #cat #bear #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together magazine, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #long hair #pigtails #tomboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #falling #telephone pole #telegraph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Having a bear for a brother."  From Reading Time Stories by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #bear #teddy bear
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Sundials (permalink)
"Life's but a walking shadow."  A sundial from The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #shadow #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #nest #blackbird #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 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 #fairies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you be protected from today's foaming molds.  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 #mold
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As RuPaul says, "If you can't love yourself..."  From Emerson's 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #self love #vintage yearbook #vintage man #smiling man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 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 #imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #harp #woman #vintage woman
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The faux-3D effect of this photograph may be used to faciliate an altered state of consciousness.  From Earlham's 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #time travel #hourglass
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From eyE Marty, by Marty Feldman:

[This is Feldman's "autobiography"--more like a draft of autobiographical materials, really, published long after his death with literally no editing.]

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I want to walk the wicket at Lords; I don't want to actually play. I just want to walk out there, putting on my gloves as they do with such class, adjust my cap a little, look around, put the crease down. That's all I want to do. [I'm sold! Now I sort of want to do this, too. (:v>]

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I was on a roll and would set myself exercises in writing for people who were no longer alive. [And, as you know, I have definitely done this.]

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Lew Grade...didn't recognize me. Long cigars, short memory!

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[In case you didn't know that the traveling hump was originally just done as a behind-the-scenes antic.]

I wore it on the other side one day to see if anyone would notice and Mel and Gene said that it should be part of the gag, what hump!

[Similarly, I've just added to that "Walk This Way" Wikipedia section to relate Feldman's own account of how that arose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Frankenstein#%22Walk_this_way%22]

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My car is just like me, a little package with a huge engine and I often seem to arrive before it does.

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[When Lennon was estranged from Ono, Feldman's wife] would joke that she was ready to go with him and had a bag packed. She said the same thing about one of the Muppets so I wasn't too worried!

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I toyed with the idea of calling it Marty Feldman's First Second Movie.
***

Bonus: Among a list of ideas for projects is a movie called "One of Our Cliches Is Missing."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #stilts #shepherd #sheep
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to getting anybody to thumb-up your video on Youtube, when they're seeming all allergic to simply tapping an icon.  From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #voting
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Old News (permalink)
"Whenever 'two is company,' three makes a triangle."  From Improvement Era, 1947.
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#triangle #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
In parts one and two, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seinfeld to be the first show about nothing.  Not only was nobody in the spooky tower ...
... even little boxes are eerily empty ... 
... as well as bigger boxes, like coffins, because the larger the emptiness, the greater the horror:
Where did everything go?  It joined the nothingness from whence it came:
[To be continued.  Yes, there's more about nothing.]
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#horror #dark shadows
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We're delighted that James K. Ultra of Pain in the Yeahs promoted our haunted clockwork cover of "Disappear Easy," rapped by the aetheric voices coming through our Tesla spirit radio.  Here's a sneak peek at our video.
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#neons gone mad #haunted clockwork #pain in the yeahs #james k. ultra
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We can doubly confirm the authenticity of this photo, both as wearers of genuine mop wigs and as relatives of Lady Godiva (the barest branch of the family tree — on our maternal side.  You might be, too: see Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.)  From Ohio State University's 1952 yearbook.
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#horse #vintage men #cross dressing #men #1950s #lady godiva #mop wig
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Ptomaine Street, by Carolyn Wells
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#september
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I saw the eyes glaring at me."  From Chatterbox, 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 #spooky #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Juvenial deliquency.  From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1956.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #giant #juvenile deliquent
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #sun #japanese #sunset
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college: waiting for food only dogs appreciate.  From Lebanon Valley'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 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.
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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage book #book #goose #skiing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Waiting for the party to begin.  From National College of Education's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #invisible man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #hooded figure
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Revealed -- why it's difficult to get dandelions out of the yard.  From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #flower #dandelion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1887 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 #handshake
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This ad is actually saying that making a long distance call is the same as straining your eyes to read in an overly dark room back home.  From Together magazine, 1968.
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#vintage ad #dark room #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"What we will be we are now becoming."  From Pittsburg State's 1937 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Spiderland by R. A. Ellis, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #spider #spider web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The man who was invited to all the parties."  From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Human Culture, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #phrenology #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the North Carolina College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clubs #1920s #playing card
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1853.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #pluto #proserpina
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