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September 30, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This pleasant-faced lady has made four thousand dollars."  That's over $95,000 in today's inflation.  From The Saturday Evening Post, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Journeys Abroad by Stothers & Rupert and illustrated by Edith McLaren, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #globe #map #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #door #red door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Frog versus turtle: which do you wager for the win?  From St. Nicholas, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a Hallowe'en yarn game from 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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#halloween #october #jack-o'-lantern #vintage halloween #vintage postcard #yarn game #postcard
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Old News (permalink)
"Ten years from mow, what will you remember about 1968?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#memory #1960s #vintage headline #headline #1968
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State University of New York Agricultural and Technical Institute at Delhi's 1966 yearbook.

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

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Old News (permalink)
"Introverts deter 'roach thinking.'"  From The Aberree, 1957.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State University's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any level 1 mage you meet today work with you, not against you.  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 #wizard #mage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1917 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Old News (permalink)
"Mysterious River Styx: Indiana stream of blind fish disappears three times."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1913 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 Rockford College New Faces, 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College'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 #banjo #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Arbetsgruppen För Ufologi, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#alien #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Louis University's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cupid
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Old News (permalink)
"Boys are queer things."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dancing #native american #1920s #illustration
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September 29, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A dog chases away the mischievous hobyahs.  From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Roman senate.  From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #roman #1930s #rome #illustration #senate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 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 #cat #fish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana State University'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 #golf
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There's only the strangeness of the people around me."  From Dark Shadows episode 17.
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#strangeness #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #star
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1984.
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#bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Planetary spirits in materialized form at a seance.  From Gallery of Spirit Art, Nov. 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #umbrella #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't be a fun dropout."  From The Gateway, 1962.
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#vintage ad #1960s #vintage headline #woman #vintage woman #headline #dropout #ad #don't be
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1901.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1970s #invisible man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #flying machine #explosion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 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 #nursery rhyme #tinker
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Fanny's First Play, by Bernard Shaw:

[The apostropheless contractions, according to the Gutenberg notes, are how Shaw published it.]

***
SAVOYARD. As you dont like English people, I dont know that youll get on with Trotter, because hes thoroughly English: never happy except when hes in Paris, and speaks French so unnecessarily well that everybody there spots him as an Englishman the moment he opens his mouth. [This bookends a passage I recall from a Delano Ames novel.]

***
SAVOYARD. Mind you dont chaff him about Aristotle.
THE COUNT. Why should I chaff him about Aristotle?
SAVOYARD. Well, I dont know; but its one of the recognized ways of chaffing him.

***
TROTTER. Well, I must say!
FANNY. Just so. Thats one of our classifications in the Cambridge Fabian Society.
TROTTER. Classifications? I dont understand.
FANNY. We classify our aunts into different sorts. And one of the sorts is the "I must says."

***
TROTTER. If you had been classically educated—
FANNY. But I have.
TROTTER. Pooh! Cambridge! If you had been educated at Oxford, you would know that the definition of a play has been settled exactly and scientifically for two thousand two hundred and sixty years.

***
BANNAL. [sulkily] Oh, very well. Sorry I spoke, I'm sure. [Ha, it's Kenneth Williams in Round the Horne.]
***

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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 #chamois #illustration #goat-antelope
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #crying animal #1930s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A star-shaped cloud, from Contact USA, 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #star #cloud
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September 28, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1925.
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#1920s #limerick #poem
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)





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#dark shadows #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Hauff, 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 #fairy tale #illustration #the people could fly #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 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 #bat #bell #illustration #1880s
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Old News (permalink)
"Never too late to mend and not too soon to begin."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #hippo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "Escape!" by J. T. C., 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#coffee #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An armchair cowboy from Oklahoma A & M College's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #lasso
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A spirit message from "Ruth" in 1946, recorded in Omena, Michigan.  The handwriting reads, "I came here to wait.  It is just perfect here.  I'm the only one here now but expect the others any time now."
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#spirit writing
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Puzzles and Games :: Tic Tac Toe Story Generator (permalink)
This game of Tic Tac Toe can be decoded as poem with our Tic Tac Toe Story Generator.  From Eastern Nazarene College's 1980 yearbook.
INSTRUCTIONS:
In alternate turns, complete a row, column, or diagonal with three X’s or O’s. Each X and O has a discrete unit of meaning, as detailed in the Dictionary of One-Letter Words. Choose and write a letter meaning alongside each X and O placed in the grid; don’t repeat a letter meaning within the same game. Number each turn on the grid, to establish the linear progression of the story. When the game is finished, use the sequence of key words to construct your story, adding connecting phrases as necessary.

Click here for a printable template.  Thanks to Gary Barwin for inspiration!
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1955.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smart animal #smart bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Catspells by Claire Nahmad.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #occult #cat #cat magic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #spiral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hat #vintaeg fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #lion #winged lion #heraldic #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.)'s 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #transformation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #cat king
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
A nightmare after not studying German verbs.  From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crushed #1900s
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Old News (permalink)
"Kidnapped fawns are not happy."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1939.
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#deer #vintage headline #headline #fawn
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September 27, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #penguin #antarctic
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#vampire #music video #color palette #1970s #video #grave mood rings #70s colors #1970s colors
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Old News (permalink)
"Let's do something reckless."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.
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#vintage headline #headline #bad advice
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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 #stick figure #diagram #illustration #ghost dance
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #maze #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #native american #dam #weir
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Old News (permalink)
"Shh!  Calories are sleeping."  From The Romulus Roman, 1972.
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#vintage headline #headline #calories
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #hedgehog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Finding the bird of truth.  From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 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 #birdcage #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The eyes that blazed forth magic."  From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#vintage ad #eyes #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #skiing
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Old News (permalink)
"Foiled by dust."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#dust #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #big book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do you brush twice a day and still get decay?"  From The Old Line, 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 #despair #drinking #tooth decay
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.  See Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #queen of hearts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster #tentacles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #scarecrow #oz #1900s #painter
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I:

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The sort of question that the novelist William Gaddis…described jokingly: “On which side of the paper do you write?” [Introduction]

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[Editor Robert Gottlieb] takes this enormous ego and lends it to the writer, thereby reinforcing the writer's ego. Bob is very generous with his ego." [Lynn Nesbit]

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INTERVIEWER: You once mentioned some pancake poems.
RICHARD PRICE: He'd write them on round paper, bring them to class, read them, pour syrup on them and then eat them. The sixties.

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I just couldn't wait to read my stuff to people. I'd read to a fire hydrant. [Price]

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[A newspaper reported that] “Miss Bishop read a poem called ‘The Moose’ and the tassle of her mortarboard swung back and forth over her face like a windshield wiper.” [Elizabeth Bishop]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Love has wings,—so people say; and thus love-letters fly away."  From Such Nonsense! by Carolyn Wells, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #princess #love letter #poem
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September 26, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Spartan boys must endure pain."  From School Boys of Long Ago, Part Two by Beatrice Hurley & Ina Sartorius and illustrated by Henry Rood, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pain #1930s #illustration #sparta #spartan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's front row of little rabbits falling with a crash to the floor is 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 #owl #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bear #illustration #1910s
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Make your own weather.  Every day a good day."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#weather control #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's extraterrestrial swan is from a c. 1960 pamphlet by the East Jordan Businessmen's Association, courtesy of UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #swan #rocket #extraterrestrial
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Old News (permalink)
"Become unpopular overnight."  From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
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#vintage headline #popularity #headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the pieman for Simple Simon.  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #hidden picture #simple simon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories From the Faerie Queen by Mary Macleod and illustrated by A. G. Walker, 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 #crystal ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Michigan's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"If all you want from church is hell, fire and brimstone, burn this ad."  From Current Sauce, 1988.
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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage ad #hell #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ear #quiet #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Times on Our Street by Gates, Huber, Peardon and Salisbury, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Enthusiasm runs rampant.  The wave of enthusiasm remains in epidemic proportions."  From Kent State University's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #apathy
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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 #fashion #vintage fashion #duchess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #cauldron #vintage yearbook #floating skull
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Old News (permalink)
"Doctor sues 'the ghost' for 3/40 million dollars."  From The Aberree, 1954.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When the entire sky is a castle in the air.  From the University of Toledo's 1933 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 #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #demon #skull #lobotomy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #swimming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #spaghetti
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photographer
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1938.
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#cat
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September 25, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Open Door English Series for the Junior High School, Book Three, 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 #literary characters #1930s #illustration #characters
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crocodile #rabbit #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mammoth Story Book, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #ice #skating #1900s #ice skating #thin ice #illustration #ice skates
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Charlie looks crossly at the funny clown."  From Charlie and His Kitten Topsy, written and illustrated by Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #clown #duck #illustration #pet walker #walking the duck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 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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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A bachelor is a man who has been fortunate in his love affairs."  From Toike Oike, 1938.
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#bachelor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #occult #fortune teller #crystal ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Huntington College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The pulse generator of a tornado.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #tornado #cloud #diagram
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Old News (permalink)
"Indignant woman resents intrusion of curiosity hunters and gets desperate."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #humility
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They all wore good clothes now."  From Billtry by Mary Kyle Dallas, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #underwear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Such Nonsense! by Carolyn Wells, 1918.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #the end
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bubble pipe #yearbook #soap bubbles #blowing bubbles
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Old News (permalink)
"A black list of forbidden words."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.  See The Dictionary of Ugly Words.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alchemist #chemistry #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English Activities Book Three by Hatfield, Lewis, Besig & Borchers (undated, c. 1938).
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#vintage illustration #elephant #1930s #illustration #giant elephant #big as a house
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September 24, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Leaving strings for an oriole to weave into a nest.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #1930s #illustration #string #oriole
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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 #bird #1900s #illustration #albatross
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Changes All Around Us by Craig & Baldwin, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #rabbit #1940s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #vampire #video #penetralia #jonathan caws-elwitt #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #carriage #illustration #chaise #horse carriage
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Unicorns (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #unicorn #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"Cat walks 337 miles."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1904.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Rejected Cubist designs for the new silver coinage."  From Punch, 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 #money #1920s #cubism
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Old News (permalink)
"Get your shrunken head."  From The Gateway, 1962.
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#vintage headline #shrunken head #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't lose the spark."  From Together, 1958.
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#star #vintage headline #headline #spark
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Berea College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #stuffed animal #1960s #vintage man #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The sign on the shelf says, "This is heaven and we're all dead!"  Either way, prove it for yourself with Books of the Dead.
Photo from St. Andrews Presbyterian College's 1963 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ellis Stanyon's Magic, 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 #shadow #spider #hands
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Put girls in overalls."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage headline #overalls #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #drunk #lamp post #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horror #telephone #spoof ad #princess phone
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Corner Shop, by Elizabeth Cadell:

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"I'm the greatest living authority on what it's like to live with a greatest living authority."

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"I want everybody to be thoroughly happy doing whatever they want to do...but I want them to do it without me."

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"Oh, please, please will you call me Barbara? I hate being Miss-Clitheroed."

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"You're very kind," Malcolm said in a voice that would have left icicles on his moustache, if he had had one.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #teapot #candle #oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #snowball #illustration #1910s
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September 23, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
"Alas"?  "Huzzah," surely!  "Huzzah for the poet who gazes enraptured at a gleaming star!"  From Heroes of Science by Cottler & Jaffe, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #poet #star #1930s #illustration #huzzah
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #disgust #illustration #making faces #mistrust #repulsion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding (British Ed.), 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"A taste for the macabre."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#macabre #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #forked tail #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's angel with a turned-up nose is from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1928 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 Fairy Stories My Children Love Best of All by Edgar Dubs Shimer and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #underwater #fairy tale #under the sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Well, the answer is yes."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #extraterrestrial
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Old News (permalink)
"The present time of the year has been named the silly season."  From Bay Path College's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage headline #silly season
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #lion #lion cub
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witch's Cat 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 #giant shoe #shoe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flowers #daisy chain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #seeing double #pole vaulting #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #pistol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #zoo #bigfoot
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'm tired of coffee."  From Dark Shadows episode 40.
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#coffee #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hope College's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #endpapers
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From Snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren, 1863.
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#vintage illustration #snowflake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The first day of autumn is when a mustachioed friend drops leaves on you.  From Southeastern College's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #mustache #vintage man #moustache #man #falling leaves #1980s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dharma Combat, no. 10.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #end of the world #fear monger
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September 22, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
Linonophobia is the fear of threads and strings.  From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany More Friends and Neighbours, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #thread #phobia #scream #1940s #illustration #fear of thread #fear of string
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise.  In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask.  Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was penned by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#arcade game #video game #video #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"The moon listenes in, sending back an echo to earth."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#moon #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 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 #political cartoon #lion
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Old News (permalink)
"'Things' do not an art show make."  From The Gateway, 1969.
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#modern art #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Valparaiso University'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 #autumn #leaf #falling leaves #fall
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Where the Wind Blows by Katharine Pyle and illustrated by Bertha Corson Day, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology #andromeda #perseus
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Old News (permalink)
"Forgetting as a fine art."  From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#memory #forgetting #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.  See Secrets of Chicken Whispering.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #talking bird #rooster #animal intelligence #poultry #smart animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The grind."  From Indiana State University'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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Applying makeup with an animal foot.  From Old Times, A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #makeup
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Old News (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North-Western College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #raccoon #chipmunk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1977 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #nursery rhyme #quaker
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Old News (permalink)
"Yo ho ho and a bottle of milk."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.
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#pirate #milk #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 2008 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #bubble
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1951.
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#cat #mirror
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall, by PJ Fitzsimmons:

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"Oh, I say..." said Beau but then, putting the lie to it, he said nothing.
***

Notes on a couple of the attachments:
1. The "as it were" interjection in the young toff's attempt to recite poetry reminded me of W. Featherstone Chapbook and his gentleman's first book of verse, natch.
2. Don't look now, but your old friend the "hunch" morphs into a silly meal!
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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 #rhino #illustration
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September 21, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 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 #fairy tale #1930s #illustration #food #eating #porridge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #fox #1920s #pinocchio #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #turkey #fox #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Stonehenge for ever."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#standing stones #monolith #stone circle #vintage headline #stonehenge #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Golden Links in the Chain That Connects Mother, Home and Heaven by Mrs. J. P. Newman, 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 #angel #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #butterfly #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #quill pen #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The key unlocks the oak tree."  From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #tree #magic tree #oak tree #illustration #hollow tree #fairy tree #tree door
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Yeshiva'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 #lion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 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 #reading
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #animal headed #cat people #lion man #lion headed
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #living toy #yarn doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Our most versatile."  From Indiana State University'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 #dandy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #octopus #tentacles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1917 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
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Old News (permalink)
"Worn nickels are good."  From the Duluth Herald, 1902.
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#money #vintage headline #headline #nickel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.)'s 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spinning top
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Old News (permalink)
"Even monsters get hungry."  From The Old Line, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #monster #vampire #1940s #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 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 #train #faces in things #paddleboat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the Souths 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Australian Flying Saucer Review, 1961
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#alien #vintage illustration
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September 20, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Design Your Home for Living by Mabel Barbara Trilling, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #lamp #1950s #interior decorating
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Old News (permalink)
"The whole earth trembles."  From The Children's Newspaper1919.
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#earth #vintage headline #headline #trembling
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #vampire #video #penetralia #jonathan caws-elwitt #grave mood rings
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Our Fourfooted Friends and How We Treat Them, 1904.
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#cat #vintage photo #1900s #kitten #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #bear #milk #illustration #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spinster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you not encounter any uninvited komodo dragons.  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 #komodo dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Human Culture, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #phrenology #character reading #physiognomy #lips
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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 #poseidon #king neptune #trident #heraldry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #umbrella #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #tiger #ladder #up a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ripon College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 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 #sculptor #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ape #blind date
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From Abeniki Caldwell by Carolyn Wells, 1902.
[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 #binoculars
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Unobliging ladies (well past middle age)."  From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #stick figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The oracle's utterances as ambiguous as one of his "safeguards."  From Punch, 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 #oracle
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, 1902-1904(?)

[I neglected to keep meticulous track of the 1904 vs. 1905 cusp as I wrapped up this batch, hence the uncertainty in the subject line.]

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"Aren't they dears, Mr. Popover?"

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She was one of that kind...that is just bound to graduate with honors clinging to her degree as thick as barnacles.

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His countenance betrayed impenetrable solemnity, if that can be called betrayal.
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[Additional snippets attached. "The Inside Story of It" refers, prosaically, to the "inside story" of some boring contretemps--i.e., you've heard about the affair, now here's the inside story of it. But when I first encountered the title, I naturally read it with implied italics on "It"--i.e., here, at last, is the inside story of It, for everyone who's always wanted to know about It!]

[Bonus character name: Hector Brisbane Snale]














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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator Thomas Hawk spotted this one in Kansas City, Missouri.
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#temporal anomaly #clock
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Laughing Horse, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #church #1920s #new mexico #illustration #linocut #lino print
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September 19, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
Before The Stuff, there was the Brothers Grimm's "The Porridge."  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #1930s #illustration #porridge #the stuff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's kittens going to bed, but out of order.  From We Can Read Surprises by Gerrard & McInnes, 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 #anthropomorphism #cat #1960s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Men keep out!"  From The Ladies' Home Journal, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #sexism #1940s #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fables In Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir, 1870.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #rooster #1870s #illustration #jewel
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Old News (permalink)
"Men stronger than gorillas."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#gorilla #vintage headline #strong man #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"This year of movement toward the not impossible has left imprints on these pages. Imprints of days not wholly sweet, not wholly bitter."  From Indiana State University'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 #tower #foreword
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1902.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Thou'dst meet the bear."  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 #bear
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Woroni, 1951.
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#illness #health #common cold #advice #haircut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I don't remember your name, but your breath is familiar."  From The Old Line, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bad breath #halitosis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox #chicken
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Utah Agricultural College'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 #tower #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
(From an ad for Vanity Fair magazine.)  From Collier's, 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 #vintage ad #silhouette #pet walker #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1945 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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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Are engineers people?"  From The Gateway, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #geometry #engineer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College's 1927 yearbook. 

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #luther
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #tree spirit #faces in things #oz #1900s #tin woodman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ancient Times, A History of the Early World, Second Edition by James Henry Breasted, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #monument #illustration #obelisk #constantinople
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September 18, 2024

Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
Here's today's bunny staring into the void.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny #1930s #illustration #void
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #1930s #illustration #Pandora
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Our very own Books of the Dead is pictured next to a screaming green skull.  Thanks, Christine!

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#skull #book of the dead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do not write humpty-dumpty stories."  From The Open Door English Series for the Junior High School, Book Three, 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 #writing #statue #humpty dumpty #communication #1930s #advice #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Is the whole universe exploding?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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#end of the world #vintage headline #headline #fear mongering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #gatekeeper #doorkeeper
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A glowing tree from the glowing forests that spread through old yearbooks.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Man waiting for the moon to come up."  From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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#vintage illustration #giraffe
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Old News (permalink)
Fake news: "It's fun to be forty."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.
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#aging #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling when a joke doesn't land.  From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #king #jester
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hand #fist #law #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1908 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 #1900s #hat
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Old News (permalink)
"Happier in zoo than in the wild."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1951.
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#zoo #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University'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 #hybrid #rat #1930s #rat man #human-headed
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Old News (permalink)
"Boy is scared to death by geese."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#goose #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #church #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From P's and Q's: A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement by Sallie B. Tannahill, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #ornate letter #bear #letter b #illustration
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September 17, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Owls do not sleep at night, so coffee will not keep them awake."  From Broadcasting Health by Andress & Goldberger, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #coffee #1930s #illustration
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"Oh dear God, dear God please let the curse be over."  From Dark Shadows episode 1214.
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#prayer #curse #dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stage Costuming by Agnes Brooks Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1600s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Book, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #camel #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Drunken hallucinations used to make the news.  (Or do they still?)  "Too many cups.  It causes a woodsman to see a menagerie—wayward damsels."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.
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#vintage headline #hallucination #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #torch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #skull #money #treasure chest
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Old News (permalink)
How true those words are, even today: "It will soon be that time of year."  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #clown #joke
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reading between adjacent pages.  From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I ran straight into his arms."  From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click twice to roll in to springtime. From Bay Path College's 1953 yearbook.

From Bay Path College's 1953 yearbook
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #seasons #gif
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1969.
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#vintage photo #1960s #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"You may think he's joined the Poet's Club because he talks about 'the flush of dawn.'  But we know better.  He calls himself a near-beer fan.  (It makes him wild just to be near beer.)"  From Indiana State University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beer #vintage yearbook #playing cards
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The Right Word (permalink)
Rise and raise.  From Using Our Language, Grade VIII by T. I. Davis, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #sun #grammar #window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
For those times one needs to cover one's bases.  From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #good and evil #crystal
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, February 1910:

***
Two plays and one critic formed the eternal theatrical triangle. [Nathan--referring to a typical evening during a busy opening season for plays]

Divorce originally created a sensation in Europe...In New York it created only a sensation of ennui. [Nathan]

[Two more Nathan snippets attached.]

***
"a critic who has thought things out for himself, to five places of decimals" [Mencken]
***

[Bonus attachment: a silly mock classified ad]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #mesopotamian #lion #hunter
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Cabarrus County Hospital School of Nursing's 1952 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 #lost at sea #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sailboat #nurse #illustration #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #illustration
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September 16, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It was a strange question to ask of a garden pea."  Gregor Johann Mendel, in Heroes of Science by Cottler & Jaffe, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #friar #garden #vegetable #pea #mendel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Is this the way to run trains and sentences?"  From Language for Meaning, Communicating Ideas by McKee & McCowen, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's cat under a chicken is from The Baby Animal Zoo by Nida & Nida, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #chicken #1920s #illustration #animal friends
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"As motionless as if she had been carved in wood."  From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
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#vintage illustration #circus #illustration #knife thrower #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948. 
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten
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Old News (permalink)
"Healing -- or death -- stored by Indian seers.  Weird powers of the ancient totems."  From The Aberree, 1957.  
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#vintage headline #totem pole #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1880.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #Sarah Bernhardt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #bird
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Old News (permalink)
"There's an awkward stage in growing up."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage headline #headline #awkward
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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 #ufo #alien abduction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ice sailing.  From Chatterbox, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #ice #winter #skating #iceskates #sailing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Best insect woman we've seen all day.  From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insect woman #insect people #bug woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An out-of-body exploration.  From Drawings Descriptive of Spirit Life and Progress, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #spirit #spiritualism #astral body #astral travel #out of body #spirit body
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Hamburger and anti-hamburger.  From Indiana State University'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 #hamburger #mouthwash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#skull #occult #mysterious #glass skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stairway #stairs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #palette #food tray
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When th' liver is hittin' right."  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 1914.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #egypt #1930s #illustration
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September 15, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #dentist #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #shoe #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Two hobgoblins and their wicked work in the world."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#hobgoblin #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #automaton
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Old News (permalink)
The baker's bread was confiscated after he was discovered sleeping on his mixing table with a sack of flour for a pillow.  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#baker #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bluffton College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #feather #tiny man #tickling
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Old News (permalink)
"Never one of them."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1955.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The x'd out text says, "Possibly knows more about art and everything else than any man living."  From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #art critic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1952.
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#mummy #sarcophagus #vintage illustration #egyptian #coffin #cold feet #spoof ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1945 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #test tube #stuck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fox #rooster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ottawa University's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drunk #melting architecture
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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.
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#vintage illustration #king #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #club
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Old News (permalink)
"White darkness."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From works by Maarten Maartens:

["Maarten Maartens" was a pen name chosen by a Dutch author who was writing in English. Supposedly he wanted a psuedonym that would sound Dutch to English-speakers but also be easy to remember. Most of the snippets attached are from a short story entitled "The Permanent Fool." The chapter-title highlights are from a novel called A Question of Taste; Maartens also wrote a novel called My Lady Nobody.]






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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #goat-antelope #musk-ox #muskox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Mattress club."  From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #1920s #asleep #vintage men #men #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's phoenix is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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September 14, 2024

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
An album of collaborations between Sigfus of Sweden and Neons Gone Mad: Among Rabbits and Runes, on Spotify.
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#clockwork music #neons gone mad #sigfus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English Activities 2 by Hatfield, Lewis, Thomas & Woody, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #falling #goat #seeing stars #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fable #fire #bear #native american #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #interior design #interior decorating
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Old News (permalink)
"Each must live with himself."  From The Improvement Era, 1963.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1922.
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#yarn #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit drawing
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Park College's 1948 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #clouds #yearbook #sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1931 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bridge #venice
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1953.
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#cat #smiling cat #smiling animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Open your mouth and let me see your language."  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #yearbook #telescope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #postman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drum #mandolin #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton College's 1878 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Old News (permalink)
From repudiation to acceptance that "God is dead."  From The Gateway, 1962.
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#religion #vintage headline #headline
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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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#dream #frog #musical animal #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Occupation: talking to themselves."  From the College of William and Mary's 1902 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hermit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mr. and Mrs. Muchalike."  From Applied Psychology by John William Taylor, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #phrenology #twinning
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Old News (permalink)
"Pidgin-English on the air."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1947.
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#vintage headline #headline #pidgin
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September 13, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
QR codes may have been invented in 1994, but they have decorated clothing long before.  From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #design #illustration #clothing #qr code
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Design Your Home for Living by Mabel Barbara Trilling, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #lighting #1950s #interior decorating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper1919.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #poem #1910s #imaginary animal #lionard
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #standup comedy #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #oz #1900s
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Old News (permalink)
"A misunderstood word breeds strange ideas."  From The Auditor #69.
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#vintage headline #headline #misunderstood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #yantra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The sport of kings."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #grim reaper #cauldron #war death
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.
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#shadow #aphorism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #coffee
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Calmly disturbing the peace."  From Moody Bible Institute's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1940s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1908.
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#vintage illustration #cannibalism #hand #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Utah Agricultural College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #umbrella #butterfly #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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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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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Nuggles," by Aquila Kempster:

"Rodney W. Martin, parted in the middle with a 'William.'"

[Three more snippets attached. The premise is that the protagonist is trying to locate a woman whom he's seen only in a photo, in which she's identified herself only by the presumed pet name of Nuggles. When they ultimately meet, and he's embarrassed to have blurted out "Nuggles" in his surprise and joy, he explains it away by the ploy of saying it's a positive expletive, originating with the Greek. She, for her part, doesn't recognize the word ("What was it--Guggles?"); and it also turns out she's read the novel he's recently written in which he's called the heroine Nuggles in her honor...and so he has to double down on the word's provenance. Ha! And it Just Goes to Show: The only reason I bothered with this story, as I glanced through the Smart Set table of contents, was a faint hope that a story called "Nuggles" would pay off. I was prepared for some tedious disappointment like a sea yarn or a dog story--but hooray!]




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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"At least the coast was clear."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #clown #vintage yearbook #feather #monkey #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Beyond the death of the death of God."  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.
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#god #vintage headline #god is dead #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From American University's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #spiral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile
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September 12, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've yet to have an informal and unscheduled ice-tray treat, "one of the pleasantest features of family life."  From Family Meals and Hospitality by Lewis, Peckham & Hovey, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #food #1950s #eating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's squirrel saying, "You brute!"  From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #sun #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The cow that fell on a roof.  And the plane that fell on a cow."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
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#cow #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's surveying cactus is from the University of Arizona's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #cactus #surveying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Snow White (written and illustrated by various), 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1981 yearbook.

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#gothic #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #clouds #yearbook #photo
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Old News (permalink)
"Can you list all 30 of the senses?  Or are you trying to get along with over-working less than five?"  From The Aberree, 1954.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare A Choice of Magic by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Robin Jacques.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #strawman
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Old News (permalink)
"Ravens in the archives."  From Woroni, 1998.
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#raven #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #taxes #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Those who still plod."  From Moody Bible Institute's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #typewriter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #goblin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Kind of Show they liked—and the Kind they attended."  From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #opera #audience #ventriloquist #vaudeville
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rope
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1959.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winged horse
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Old News (permalink)
Good news for some: it's OK to be bizarre if you're over 30.  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage headline #bizarre #eccentric #headline #over 30
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fishing #1920s #illustration #summer camp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English in Action, Book Two by Tressler & Shelmadine, 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 #george washington #1930s #illustration
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September 11, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Examples of ugly furniture.  From Home Furnishing by Anna Hong Rutt, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ugly #1960s #illustration #furniture #interior design
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monolith #illustration #prehistoric
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"The clocks that do not tell the time."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.
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#clock #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #cow #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 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 #vintage book #book #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 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 #animal attack #bull #1920s #illustration #up a tree
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Alien nudists?  Alien nudists!  Cue Flying Saucers Uncensored by Harold Tom Wilkins, 1955.
(Illustration from BUFORA Journal, 1978.)
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien #nudism
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From The Whisper, 1932.
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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#vintage illustration #angel #whisper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #duck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #mushroom
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell, 1911.
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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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#occult #phantom ship
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ball Teachers College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crossroads #pumpkinhead #oz
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Old News (permalink)
"Headache and heartburn."  From Calvin College's 1957 yearbook.
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#headache #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Frinally she became so exuberant that she climbed up on a table and demonstrated the 'Virginia Beach.'"  From The Old Line, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dancing
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1930 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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook #harbor
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Old News (permalink)
"Truth never dies."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's donkey reverend is from Wabash College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #donkey #jackass
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #apple #fruit #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College'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 #pirate #treasure chest #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #out the window #the people could fly
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September 10, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ice #locomotive #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#skull #prof. oddfellow #vampire #video #grave mood rings #screaming skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Frank R. Stockton, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #stilts #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know how many feet a dockyard has."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fire #hidden picture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A rainbow intersected by a white arc.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #rainbow #diagram
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of two elements from The Gateway, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #temptation #garden of eden #adam and eve #apple
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't hide anything."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1955.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A message to a cat from the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas.  From the University of Texas at Arlington's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook #graffiti #ghost town
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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 #dancing #buddhist #mongolia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mercury, 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 #vintage diagram #venn diagram #diagram #occult diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #atlas #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world
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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 #dice #football
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern Illinois University's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#alligator #vintage yearbook #costume #alligator costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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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#piano #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'm afraid it's past my business hours."  From Dark Shadows episode 357.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stick figure #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Old-fashioned blizzard is a thing of the past."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#snow #vintage headline #blizzard
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Mrs. Dot, by W. Somerset Maugham:

[This farce from 1908 seems like a bit of a missing link between The Importance of Being Earnest and Right Ho, Jeeves.]

***
Mrs. Dot.
Now we’ll have luncheon. You must be starving with hunger.

Blenkinsop.
You must let me wash first.

Mrs. Dot.
No, we’re all far too hungry. Freddie will go and wash his hands for you.

***
Mrs. Dot.
I wonder why you never married, James.

Blenkinsop.
Because I have a considerable gift for repartee. I discovered in my early youth that men propose not because they want to marry, but because on certain occasions they are entirely at a loss for topics of conversation.

[...]

Blenkinsop.
I never played for brilliancy. I played for safety...Once a dowager sought to ask me my intentions, but I flung at her astonished head an entire article from the “Encyclopædia Britannica.”
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #cat
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September 9, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The rat ran away with the spoon."  From The Baby Animal Zoo by Nida & Nida, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spoon #1920s #rat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #night #bear #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #mouse #crying animal #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 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 #earth #typewriter #illustration #curvature of the earth
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Old News (permalink)
"It's easier if you don't expect children to be fun all the time."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline #parenting #childrearing
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Old News (permalink)
From How Long Have You Been Sick?, 1861.
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#illness #vintage headline #headline #sick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #drunk #lamp post
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #wheel
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Old News (permalink)
"A 52-hour boogie."  From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage headline #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Immovable object meets irresistible force."  From The Old Line, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #pitchfork #hell #bill collector
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We couldn't find more information about these (divinatory?) cards by Jeanette Fleming.  The bottom card, "An Unearthly Hour," speaks to us.  From Northeastern Illinois University's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #divination #card reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Odd Creatures by Dum-Dum, 1915.
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#hippo #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#deity #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Why don't they shut up."  From Tufts University's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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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 #fear #death #cat #pitchfork #animal cruelty #vivisection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #illustration #scroll
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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 #vintage diagram #grammar #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College'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 #cartooning #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 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 #horse #submerged
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September 8, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
These Airbnb signs from the 1940s are superior to what we see today.  From The Art Class in Action by Joicey M. Horne, 1941.
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#1940s #lettering #sign #text layout
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Acclaimed by the producer of Missing Persons' original song, it's our vampiric "Dreaming in the Hallows."
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#vampire #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"This queer world.  The odd things that happen."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #gnu
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Old News (permalink)
"Baffled dreams."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ptarmigan, mountain hare, and arctic fox in winter dress."  From Chatterbox, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #fox #hare #arctic fox #mountain hare #grouse #Ptarmigan #and arctic fox in winter dress.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Human Culture, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #phrenology #physiognomy #pessimism #making faces
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Old News (permalink)
"Rah rah rah ad nauseum."  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1961 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #rah rah rah #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fountain #water fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
He's reading Growing Up Absurd.  From Western Michigan College's 1968 yearbook.
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#reading #vintage yearbook #1960s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Shall it be hair or no hair?  It's your choice."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #baldness #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1931 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 #bucking bronco
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Skeletons are too-rarely identified when they're pictured.  "Slinks Skelton has given his all."  From The Old Line, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moving Picture World, 1922.
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#fire #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #tree #book
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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.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Whitney's Choice of Emblemes by Henry Green, 1866.
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#vintage illustration #emblem #goat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The American Mercury, 1925:

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Genieveve Tobin is the Barry heroine whose faith in the idiot-hero provides the love disinterest. [Nathan]

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There is no such thing as romance--it is only the expectation of itself. [Max Eastman]

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[Jolson] so far out-distances his rivals that they seem like the wrong ends of so many opera-glasses. [Nathan]

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The telephone is relied on to get at least a third of the plot over the footlights....There are also more "Gods!" in the play than in a five-foot shelf of mythology. [Nathan]
***

Bonuses:

"nowanights" (i.e., a "nowadays" equivalent for night-time activities, courtesy of Carl Van Vechten)

an act-closing curtain "which descends upon a man's announcing in all seriousness that he is going to Palm Beach and that he plans to remain there until the end of the first week in June"--a device I unwittingly echoed in my childhood play for Zoom!







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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #violin #illustration #1880s
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September 7, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Omen, 2001.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #gremlin #no #illustration #2000s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #dog #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Behind the moon: a double sun."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#sun #moon #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Choose earth colors ... berry reds, the green-yellow of citrons and unripe fruits, and browns of dead leaves."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #autumn #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #oz #wooden horse
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.
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#fairy tale
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Old News (permalink)
"Open wide the portals."  From The Aberree, 1964.
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#portal #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One expects to find photos cut out from old yearbooks, but here's one that got cut out before the yearbook went to press.  From the University of Cincinnati's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #lock and key
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Old News (permalink)
"If I did not believe that the sun looked at me a little bit, I would not look at it."  From Bay Path College's 1972 yearbook.
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#sun #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose In Silhouettes by Katherine Gough Buffum, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #spider #little miss muffet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Where old palaces are propped up with new dollars at the expense of Cupid."  From Epigrams of Eve by Sophie Irene Loeb and illustrated by Ruby Lind, 1913.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cupid #marriage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1928 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 #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"The darker drink.  The old man assured them he was an alchemist."  From The Old Line, 1941.
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#elixir #alchemy #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Our evil will is momentous within ourselves, and it works its way outside us; it may be in the vitiation that breeds evil acts, and it may also be in the self-abhorrence that stings us into better striving."  From The Essentials of the English Sentence by Elias H. MacEwan, 1900.
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#sentence diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado School of Mines's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #illustration #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 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 #dance #buffalo #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1954.
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#cat
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September 6, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stagflation hits the vampire's manor, and one of the characters must get voted out.
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise.  In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask.  Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#gary barwin #vampire #video #grave mood rings #gordon meyer #stagflation
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Old News (permalink)
"Who told the swans?"  From The Children's Newspaper1919.
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#swan #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #conceited #tiny man #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #dormouse #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Everybody around this house is exhausted, including me."  From Dark Shadows episode 122.
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#tired #exhausted #dark shadows
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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 #native american
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1971. 
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#vintage illustration #cloud #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford College's 1977 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"To his extreme horror finds every watch, every clock, and every chronometer pointing out a different hour; so that all the information he can get is, that the time is something between 12 o'clock to-day and 12 o-clock to-morrow."  From The Man in the Moon, Volume V.
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#clocks #temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Not responsible for accidents of any kind."  From Syracuse University's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #toilet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The thousand-named goddess.  From Mysteria, 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 #egyptian #goddess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ferris State College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #tall
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't spin your wheels!"  From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Detroit is a sad town."  From the Duluth Herald, 1907.
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#vintage headline #headline #detroit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 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 #pig #illustration #dancing animal #razorback
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"His book dropped to the floor, and he lay motionless, absorbing the music."  From The Old Line, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #music
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #pitchfork #hell #fraternity #vintage yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #cat #fishtank #fishing #fish tank #1980s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, January 1910:

***
[Grave wiseacres! This phrase is employed by an author named Alice Hathaway Cunningham.]
"grave wiseacres who maintained an air of mystery and said there were always two sides to every story"

***
Antony and Cleopatra with the art sauce [from "Drama's Trial Marriage with Art," by George Jean Nathan]

Cleopatra was not the only one who had been stung. [ditto]

The Belle of Brittany is one of the best musical plays that ever came out of the test tubes in the English collaboratory. [ditto]

[Four more Nathan snippets attached.]

***
It has all of the shortcomings and few of the merits of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. [Mencken]
***

[Two miscellaneous snippets also attached.]







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The Right Word (permalink)
"Do tell us the Japanese for 'How do you do,' Mr. Katsy." (Noise like foot being pulled out of swamp.) "Are you sure?"  From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #japanese
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September 5, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 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 #camel #sand storm #1920s #desert #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dancing #doll #living toy
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #sprayed #water jet
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1917 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Unless you're a herpetologist and it's your job to be there, may you escape whatever snake maze entraps you today.  From Computer Gamer, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #dandy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #despair #depression #hermit #hooded figure #1940s #worried #tarot hermit
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From the University of Texas at Arlington's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #1970s #groucho glasses
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Old News (permalink)
"Should girls whistle at boys?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#whistling #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 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
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Old News (permalink)
"Was wife of 'The Chicken.'"  From the Duluth Herald, 1907.
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#chicken #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Frederick College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I am thin!"  From The Old Line, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #mirror #weight loss
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Woman's College's 1914 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 #1910s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #cat #crossword puzzle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #alchemy #yearbook #1920s #chemistry #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"A railway monster can haul a two-mile train."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#monster #railroad #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #mouse #1920s #illustration #barn owl
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September 4, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Try This On For Size! Teacher's Guide by Verna Lefebvre, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1970s #illustration #face shapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #animal attack #hybrid #1940s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"A flying mountain.  Unexpected visitor approaching the earth."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.
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#vintage headline #meteor #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #candle #illustration #candle face #1850s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
That special feeling when you meet on the road a cat dressed like you.  From Michael Cisco's The Divinity Student.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The World of Wonders, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hindu #contortionist #yoga #fakir
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #robin #rude awakening
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Quacks of Old London by C. J. S. Thompson, 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 #woodcut #venus
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Old News (permalink)
"Everybody boogies."  From Greensboro College's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#stocks #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mountains #faces in things #mountain spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 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 #political cartoon #uncle sam #prosperity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #telephone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The sky is our world."  From The Old Line, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #zodiac
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"As long liveth the merry man, they say, as doth the sorry man, and longer, by a day" (Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister).  From University of Mary Washington's 1915 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #calligraphy #vintage yearbook #longevity #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 100.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College'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 #stagecoach #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clown #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #yarn #knitting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Young Klondike, Stories of a Gold Seeker, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #vintage magazine #magazine
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September 3, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #vampire #video #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"Great grasshopper begins to chirp.  Musk beetle appears."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#insect #grasshopper #beetle #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Japanese fox dancer.  From Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 1923. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask #japanese
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
This curious set of cards appears in Puck magazine, 1878.  The symbols (left to right, top to bottom):
  1. Maiden (a love interest)
  2. Gaslight (burned until exceedingly late at night)
  3. Darkness (i.e. the gaslight after being put out) and dreaming
  4. Heart (naive love; woefulness)
  5. Hand sign (a "terrible oath," i.e. a reckless promise)
  6. Hand sign (a second "terrible oath")
  7. Dust (the foot of someone off to parts unknown)
  8. Blank (absence, emptiness)
  9. Clock ("the early and proper hour")
The deck also includes a Gentleman card, but it wasn't printed.  The explanation: "We don't give his portrait, 'cause he had red hair and it might hurt the paper."
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#divination #card deck #puck magazine #vintage cards #playing cards #car #cards #card
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Anxiety about the future, from Dark Shadows episodes 1093 and 1092.  "There's no point in knowing the future.  It's just gonna happen anyway."  "I don't wanna find out what's going to happen, ever!"
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#divination #future #angst #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #night sky #pillar of light
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #math
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insects #death's head moth #moth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The hand of the almighty."  From Vassar College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hand of god #hand
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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 #pirate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's horse-headed baseballer is from the University of Western Ontario's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #baseball #animal-headed #horse-headed
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Old News (permalink)
"My awakening on another planet."  From Mystic Magazine, 1954.  
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#space travel #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed
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Old News (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.  
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#spiritualism #spirit medium #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #typewriter #smart animal
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Old News (permalink)
"Tall man with cough wanted."  From the Duluth Herald, 1903.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emory University's 1987 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #coffin #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1980s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1956.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #hat #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1920s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, Nov.-Dec. 1919:

My notes on some of the attachments:

1. I'm including the reference to VF in 1990 because (a) it's one of those future forecasts that falls within our own lifetimes, and (b) the 1919 writer could not have known how lucky he was to pick a distant-future date when VF actually existed, given that there was no VF between 1937 and 1982. Incidentally, they're taking a liberty in linking the ca. 1860 VF--the Artemus Ward one--to the 1913-onward one, as (unlike the 1913-1936 vis-a-vis the 1983- one) they don't seem to have been related apart from exploiting the same name. Even aside from that, there was no U.S. magazine at all called VF for most of the time between 1863 and 1913, so presuming that the then-current (and only six-year-old) VF would last at least until 1990 was quite optimistic--and, continuitywise, incorrect.
2. Since I know you keep track of someone else's honeysuckle, I thought I should include this evidence from a Dorothy Parker column that the play called Moonlight and Honeysuckle was *not* for her. In other words, it was someone else's Moonlight and Honeysuckle--in fact, as she attests, many other people's Moonlight and Honeysuckle.
3. I guess the idea in the Willys Knight (N.B. silly name for a car) illustration is that the car gives the impression of floating above the ground, so smooth is the ride? The ad makes no mention of that conceit, nor does it seem to be represented in the other WK ads I've seen. And I'm guessing the "Overland" in the company name is just a fun coincidence.
4. I have a lot to say about the President Suspenders ad. What first attracted my interest was the letter F that doubles as an arrow. Then, when I began reading the fine print, of course I noted the understated hype of "a most acceptable gift!" But the pièce de résistance, imo, is the claim that the suspenders do their job "unconsciously."

[Bonus: A couple called Mrs. and Mr. Poldoodle]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #goat #illustration
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September 2, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 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 #drawing #duck #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #amazonian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How not to find a gas leak."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #explosion #advice #illustration #1910s #gas leak
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 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 #camel #illustration #1910s
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
"Mysteries and beauties of the snow."  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.
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#snow #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Cupid gets hard knock."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#cupid #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #construction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Smoke continually oozed from all parts of his body."  From Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales by Charles B. Cory, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #smoke
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Old News (permalink)
"To the moon -- via swanback.  Hypnotist sends visitor to satellite, who finds it soggy and damp; eel-like creatures leap from stream."  From The Aberree, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #moon #swan #vintage headline #hypnosis #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faceless #no face #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cat driven out by 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 #cat #rat #tables turned
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to send light through the tall window. From Anderson College's 1949 yearbook.

From Anderson College's 1949 yearbook
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #gif
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1939.
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#vintage headline #math #headline #fraction
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Old News (permalink)
"Misnamed 'parties' flourished.  Excitement climaxed with kiss-ins."  From DePauw University's 1959 yearbook.
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#vintage headline #vintage yearbook
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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 #living toy #yarn doll #knitting needle
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Old News (permalink)
"In one year, out the other."  From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
All paintings of nudes are actually nature studies, as proven here.  From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #artist #nature
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Great Falls' 1986 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1980s #bra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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.]
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#vintage ad #1950s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #woman #vintage woman #1950s #hatchet face
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Old News (permalink)
"I can heal myself and I will."  From Fate Magazine, 1973.
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#vintage headline #healing #headline #self-healing #wellness
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September 1, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #architecture #1930s #illustration #house #spanish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fields and Fencerows by Porter & Hansen and illustrated by Hugh Spencer & Ottilie Foy, 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 #toadstool #rainy day #frog #mushroom #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Man in a little room looking at another world.  'Snow begins to fall.'"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#snow #vintage headline #astronomer #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #antelope
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Old News (permalink)
Fake news: "Anyone can sculpt."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#sculptor #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1926 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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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 #serpent #snake #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eureka 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 #chemistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 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 #shark
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State University's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #two faces #two-faced #1970s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Lady Blue-Blue begged for charity with a coin bank around her neck.  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1916.
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#cat
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A&M's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cow #puppeteer #puppet #marion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #political cartoon #knight #cow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1944 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #1900s #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1910 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"An age-old feud revived: woman vs. man."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.
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#vintage headline #battle of the sexes
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From I'll Show You the Town, by Elmer Davis:
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"All the time I can hear her registering a vow--that's what you do to vows, isn't it?"
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"Then you'd better check your baggage and doggage."

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a born where-have-you-beener

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He went away and left me. I didn't blame him. I wished I could go away and leave myself.

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This was going to be another psychological moment. Life seemed to be just one psychological moment after another.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #airplane #illustration
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