From Our Abecedarian Blog . . .

Today — July 9, 2026
	Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) A banana peel hat.  From Cartwheels by Thorn & Irwin, 1977. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Red Herring, April 1994. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Amrita, 1972. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Handbook of Nature-Study by Anna Botsford Comstock, 1911. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) "Eyebrow-plucking craze develops."  From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877). Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Centenary College's 1936 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Separated at Birth? (permalink) Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source. . . . read more from Separated at Birth? . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) An endpapers map with a resident Tsk-tsk-er.  From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Der Guckkasten, 1909. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Oberlin College's 1916 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "A long crack in the earth beyond him, which widened every instant."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Colorado College's 1942 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Images Moving Through Time (permalink) From The Gateway, 1964. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Images Moving Through Time . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Georgetown College's 1933 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Tapping the stone of knowledge against the stone which admits one to the realm of the unseen.  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.   Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From the Memphis yearbook of 1930. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) "The danger of trying to be original."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .