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Author Brosseau, Ray, compiler.

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.

Imprint New York : American Heritage Press, [1970]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  917.3038 L872 1970    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 352 pages : illustrations ; 35 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents Foreword -- The city of tomorrow -- The breadwinner -- Science and invention -- The other Americans -- Getting there -- Home and hearth -- Growing up -- The college man -- The world beyond our shores -- The body beautiful -- The American way.
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 United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
Prophecies.
Prophecies.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Prophecies. (OCoLC)fst01079193
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1865-1918
Genre/Form Prophecies. (OCoLC)fst01922509
Prophecies.
Added Author Andrist, Ralph K.
ISBN 007008131X
9780070081314

 
    
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