Remembrance of things present, the invention of the time capsule, Nick Yablon
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- United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945
- Time capsules + Social aspects -- United States
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
- United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- Time capsules -- United States -- History
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
- History + Sources + Social aspects -- United States
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Remembrance of things present, the invention of the time capsule, Nick Yablon
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-393) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Remembrance of things present
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1051674543
Responsibility statement
Nick Yablon
Sub title
the invention of the time capsule
Table of contents
Introduction: memory, history, posterity -- Safeguarding the nation: photographic offerings to the Bicentennial, 1876-1889 -- "P.O. box to the future": temperance, insurgence, and memory in San Francisco, 1879 -- Annals of the present, the local, and the everyday: the centurial time vessels as heterodox history, 1900-1901 -- Seeds of hope: "posteritism" and the political uses of the future, 1900-1901 -- "A living history of the times": the Modern Historic Records Association, 1911-1914 -- Mausoleums of civilization: techno-corporate appropriations of the time vessel, 1925-1940 -- Breaking the seal: the vicissitudes of transtemporal communication -- Epilogue: the time capsule's futures
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