From Our Abecedarian Blog . . .

Today — August 24, 2026
	Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wee Wisdom, 1944. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Astonishing Tale of a Pen and Ink Puppet or, The Genteel Art of Illustrating by Oliver Herford, 1907. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "The foreign knight."  From St. Nicholas, 1895. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Fourteen Hundred Cowries and Other African Tales, edited by Abayomi Fuja and illustrated by Ademola Olugebefola. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "Life all a mistake."  From the Duluth Herald, 1902. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) "Peter Puck wants to know if airmen have high ideals."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Chatterbox, 1880. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Kansas State University's 1980 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Images Moving Through Time (permalink) Nobody sends annual family portrait cards like this anymore.  We especially like the one in which they're facing away from the camera or otherside hiding behind a chair.  From Purple Parrot, 1942. Click to view a larger image Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Images Moving Through Time . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "Urashimataro and the Turtle," illustrated by H. J. Ford.  From The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature by Boria Sax. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The (Berkeley) Wizard, 1934. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Ohio University's 1913 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Lighted Pathway, 1963. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From the [Weymouth] Reflector, 1931. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Armour Institute of Technology's 1914 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .