Abecedarian : posts tagged 1870s

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Restoring the Lost Sense – June 20, 2014

Like a stopped clock, she was correct twice a day. (The caption reads, "She stopped, like a clock.") This bit of time suspension is from Cornhill, 1875.

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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #1870s

Strange Dreams – December 14, 2013

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An illustration from The Day of Wonders by M. Sullivan (1879). The caption reads: "The letters ... tired of lying still."

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If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!

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#alphabet #dream #fantastical #1870s #letters #language

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 27, 2013

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If it's the last dance, let it be with a goat. From an 1870 issue of London Society Illustrated magazine.

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#demon #devil #satan #death #love #goat man #vintage #goat #great beast #dance #lucifer #1870s #illustration #masque #mummer #olde worlde #great god pan #horned god

Precursors – July 3, 2013

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The (seemingly improbable) fourth side of a triangle, identified in this comic panel from Punch (1871), wasn't officially measured until 1993 by the University of Adelaide's B. F. Sherman (Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 66, No. 5).

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#vintage illustration #triangle #1870s #illustration #mathematics

Strange Dreams – May 11, 2013

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An illustration from an 1873 issue of Punch magazine. The caption reads: "Currant Jelly."

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#vintage illustration #nightmare #rabbit #1870s #illustration #jelly #currants

Precursors – March 10, 2013

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Twenty years before George Vernon Hudson proposed daylight saving time, Father Time advanced the clock in Father Time's Story Book by Kathleen Knox (1873).

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#vintage illustration #father time #1870s #daylight saving time #illustration

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – February 21, 2013

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There's something about the lettering styles of the late 60s and early 70s ... no matter whether we're talking about 1860-70 or 1960-70.

"Revolution" lettering by Alan Aldridge. The Sunday Magazine lettering is, of course, from the early 1870s.

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#typography #design #1870s #1970s #seventies #70s

Staring Into the Depths – December 14, 2012

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An illustration from an 1879 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine. The caption reads: "He grew into a fashion of dropping his pen, or holding it idly in his fingers, and picturing dreamily sketches not written out for mortal ken, but only for his heart's comfort."

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[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #1870s #vintage man #man

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – July 23, 2012

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Our work on Platonic solids tumbling through time is entitled Astragalomancy. It's all about how to divine the meanings of 21 discrete dice throws.

Knowledge of ancient Greek divination rituals is unnecessary. The simple interpretations are clear-cut, based upon specific, indisputable references to history, mathematics, literature, mythology, and arcane sciences from around the world.

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This illustration of Lady Luck appears in Punch, 1877.

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