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Old News – September 30, 2019

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Who Lifted the Lid Off of Hell? by Elbert Hubbard, 1914.

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#hell #vintage headline #old book #headline

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 26, 2019

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From Le Charivari, 1891.

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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 #crushed #big book

Yearbook Weirdness – September 25, 2019

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From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #book lover

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 25, 2019

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From The Foolish Almanak, 1906.

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#vintage illustration #old book

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – September 23, 2019

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We, too, believe in the ellipsis. From I Believe In ... by Norman Snaith, 1949. See Annotated Ellipses.

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#vintage book #book #ellipsis

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – September 22, 2019

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If you could use a hand, here's one. From Here's a Hand by Wallace Bruce, 1892.

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#hand #old book

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 13, 2019

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Buried in a book. From Satirikon, 1909.

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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #crushed #big book #1900s #funeral

This May Surprise You – September 9, 2019

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Composed by one of them: Fallen Angels, A Disquisition Upon Human Existence, an Attempt to Elucidate Some of Its Mysteries Especially Those of Evil and of Suffering by One of Them, 1894.

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#angel #vintage book #book #fallen angel

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 7, 2019

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The Olympians, A Tribute to 'Tall Sun-Crowned Men' by Elbert Hubbard, 1921.

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#old book #olympians

The Right Word – September 5, 2019

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From The Dictionary of Ugly Words, a book attributed to us.

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#dictionary #ugly word

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea – September 3, 2019

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Damaged by seawater: To Lovers and Others by Harry C. Morse, 1918.

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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News

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#old book #rose #water damage

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 2, 2019

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From Pearson's, 1902.

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#vintage illustration #reading #books

Restoring the Lost Sense – August 18, 2019

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Bookworms don't necessarily make holes in pages by eating them. Sometimes they focus light through a magnifying glass and burn holes. From Science Fiction Quarterly, 1956.

Thank you to Ant-Soul who commented, "This is the best thing I’ve seen."

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bookworm #illustration #1950s

Precursors – August 6, 2019

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Here's a precursor to the Jackson family of musical fame. Janet, One of Many (1962).

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#old book #janet jackson

Yearbook Weirdness – August 2, 2019

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From Hanover's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crushed #ex libris #bookplate

The Right Word – August 2, 2019

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Here's an entry from The Dictionary of Ugly Words, a book attributed to us.

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#dog #dictionary #noose #coersion #ugly word

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – August 2, 2019

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Is Hell Eternal Or Will God's Plan Fail? by Charles Hamilton Pridgeon, 1920.

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#hell #vintage book #book #eternity

Restoring the Lost Sense – July 30, 2019

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From Taylor University's Gem yearbook of 1957.

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#vintage illustration #shadow #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book #perspective #1957 #1950s

This May Surprise You – July 29, 2019

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It wasn't merely a prop in that old Bewitched episode in which Darrin had to be fluent in Spanish within five minutes. It's actually a book: Fluency in 5 Minutes.

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