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Today — May 18, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Live Dolls in Wonderland by Josephine Scribner Gates and illustrated by Virginia Keep, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
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Old News (permalink)
"Coyote survives 60-year war."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1951.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Central Washington University's 1907 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Our Lady of Harlem, from Harlem Friendship House News, 1948.
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
From If I Should Die Before I Live by Joseph Lomusio, 1989.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana Technical College's 1973 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Calvin College's 1977 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Going from "what we took him" to "what we made him" to "what he will be degenerated into."  From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
Just in time: Shadows Lifted, or Sunshine Restored In the Horizon of Human Lives by George Wheelock Grover, 1894.


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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary College's 1936 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The wind's shoes.  From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing's 1942 yearbook.
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