![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](../../../wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
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Thank you to Monique and Gerard Léquy and La Boite Verte
Women of the Future, 1902
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San Francisco Earthquake & Fire, 1906
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Space-age Christmas c.1973
Construction of the Titanic
Replica Shackleton Whisky
Inside the New York subway, 1905
Miniature Pigeon Cameras, 1903
Postcards of the year 2024 c.1900
The Bennie Railplane, 1929
Rhine Panorama, 1909
It’s interesting to see that that women of the future will continue to wear corsets. On a more serious note, the fact that these photos were, in a way, explorations of what women could be makes you realize just how little women could do at the turn of the century.
These are great, though I suspect they were intended at the time as a mickey-take, which our 21st century gaze doesn’t register in the same way. After all, none of the roles portrayed here would bat an eyelid these days, as now women do these jobs all the time.
Love the journalist costume, very mad hatter!
We should keep in the mind that the trousers and bare arms in these pictures would have been borderline pornographic in 1902. The pictures weren’t just a joke, but a risqué one, at the time.
Especially the jockey one-oh, my!
I would use these playing cards for poker games, if existed.
I would love to know how these were marketed, and to whom…