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Your Ship Will Come In – July 10, 2025

Great news -- this says there are only seven more weeks to go. From The Johnson Journal, 1927.

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#vintage illustration #tall ship #ship #sihouette

Your Ship Will Come In – December 1, 2022

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From Earlham's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #tall ship #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate

Yearbook Weirdness – September 30, 2022

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This illustration was captioned "Religion." From Mars Hill's 1927 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 #tall ship #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 4, 2021

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From Jugend, 1900.

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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 #tall ship #ship #asia #illustration #giant statues #art

Your Ship Will Come In – April 18, 2021

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From Greensboro's 1934 yearbook.

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Your Ship Will Come In – February 1, 2021

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From Greensboro's 1934 yearbook.

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* 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 #tall ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook

Yearbook Weirdness – June 1, 2019

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From East Carolina's 1934 yearbook. See Your Ship Will Come In.

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#vintage illustration #tall ship #ship #pirate ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook

Your Ship Will Come In – July 30, 2018

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From Jugend, 1928.

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#vintage illustration #tall ship #giantess #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – December 1, 2017

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"A polar bear plunges into the sea from a very steep iceberg while fishermen look on from a nearby trawler." Colored engraving by R. Havell after Captain Ross, 1819.

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#vintage illustration #tall ship #polar bear #engraving #iceberg #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – August 9, 2016

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From International Studio, 1920.

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#vintage illustration #tall ship #boats #illustration

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea – July 21, 2016

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From Poems by Samuel Rogers, 1834.

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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 #spirits #tall ship #ghosts #ghost ship #illustration #art

Your Ship Will Come In – July 5, 2016

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From The Year's at the Spring, an Anthology of Recent Poetry, 1920.

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#vintage illustration #sunrise #silhouette #tall ship #sailing ship #illustration #art

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – April 6, 2016

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On the very same day, Yiddish for Pirates and El Galeón arrived in town. This feels like what Carl Jung called "meaningful coincidence."

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#tall ship #gary barwin #pirate ship #yiddish #el galeÃ³n #el galeón

Restoring the Lost Sense – February 22, 2016

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From The Dragon of the North by E. J. Oswald, 1888.

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#vintage illustration #tall ship #dragon ship #dragon boat #masthead #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – February 1, 2016

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"The Ghostly Carrack," from The Jolly Roger by Hume Nisbet, 1892.

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#vintage illustration #tall ship #ghost ship #carrack #pirate ship #haunted ship #illustration

Your Ship Will Come In – December 18, 2015

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From A Poet's Calendar by William Henry Davies, 1927.

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Restoring the Lost Sense – October 2, 2015

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From The Blue Poetry Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by Lancelot Speed, 1891.

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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #grim reaper #tall ship #pirate ship #pirates #1890s #illustration

Your Ship Will Come In – September 27, 2015

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From Shipbuilding from Its Beginnings by Emile van Konijnenburg, 1913.

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#vintage illustration #tall ship #shipbuilding #illustration

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea – July 26, 2015

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"He is doomed to sail forever," from Zigzag Journeys in the Antipodes by Hezekiah Butterworth, 1889.

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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 #doom #tall ship #high seas #illustration

Your Ship Will Come In – April 25, 2015

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From Vegas Reise omkring Asia og Europa by Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, 1881.

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#vintage illustration #tall ship #heavenly bodies #illustration

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