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Today — August 15, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Soviet Circus, 1967.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the filmstrip "The Seven Sneezes," preserved by Uncommon Ephemera.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1943.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Can you act as mother's buyer when it rains?"  From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales From Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger and illustrated by Paul Honoré, 1924.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Cross your eyes to see the 3D effect of this stereoscope viewer scene from c. 1916.  Via UpNorthMemories.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In mischief."  From St. Nicholas, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Might you be related to the Man in the Moon and his little sister?  See Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.  Here's the "little sister of the moon," from Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 1920.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's questionable baseball is played within Broome Technical Community College's 1957 yearbook.
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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 Peace Institute's 1917 yearbook.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As wearers of genuine mop wigs, we confirm the authenticity of this photo.  From Circleville Bible College's 1979 yearbook.
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Sundials (permalink)
From A Book of Sundial Mottoes by Alfred H. Hyatt, 1903.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara College's 1955 yearbook.
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