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19th century art depicting life in the year 2000
- jharohit 11y agoI tried hunting down the source of it - seems like this book called "Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000" is the source material for all these posts and has scans of the original postcards released at the Paris World Fair. Here is the book link http://www.amazon.com/Futuredays-Nineteenth-Century-Vision-Year/dp/0805001204?tag=thepubdomrev-20 http://www.amazon.com/Futuredays-Nineteenth-Century-Vision-Y...
- jharohit 11y agoFound another link with a few more of these illustrations http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year-2000-1899-1910/ http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year...
- jharohit 11y agoThere is a similar themed set of illustrations which are targeted towards Fashion trends in the future http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/fashions-of-the-future-as-imagined-in-1893/ http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/fashions-of-the-fu...
- simonh 11y agoWhat again? Seriously, this shows up here every couple of months.
- jharohit 11y agowell I could only find another listing of these postcards from 3 years ago - don't think that counts as "every couple of months"
- simonh 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10328428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10328428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10338018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10338018