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Looking forward : life in the twentieth century as predicted in the pages of American magazines from 1895 to 1905.

Title
Looking forward : life in the twentieth century as predicted in the pages of American magazines from 1895 to 1905. / Created and compiled by Ray Brosseau. Interpretive text by Ralph K. Andrist.
Author
Brosseau, Ray
Publication
New York, NY : American Heritage Press, [1970]

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Additional Authors
Andrist, Ralph K.
Description
352 pages : illustrations; 35 cm
Summary
Opinions, facts, musings, and sometimes dogmatic assertions of those who lived and wrote between 1895 and 1905, from the files of such journals as: The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's Weekly, Collier's, Puck, Life (the long-defunct humor magazine), Judge, Woman's Home Companion, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, Country Life in America, Ladies' Home Journal, and others.
Subject
  • 1865-1918
  • Prophecies
  • Civilization
  • Manners and customs
  • United States > Civilization > 1865-1918
  • United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918
  • United States > Social life and customs
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Prophecies.
  • Prophéties.
Contents
Foreword -- The city of tomorrow -- The breadwinner -- Science and invention -- The other Americans -- The new woman -- Getting there -- Home and hearth -- Growing up -- The college man -- The world beyond our shores -- The body beautiful -- The American way.
ISBN
  • 007008131X
  • 9780070081314
LCCN
72095723
OCLC
  • ocm00091861
  • 91861
  • SCSB-190008
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library