Remembrance of things present : the invention of the time capsule / Nick Yablon.
Yablon, Nick, author.
2019
E169.1 .Y24 2019 (Mapit)
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Title Remembrance of things present : the invention of the time capsule / Nick Yablon.
Author Yablon, Nick, author.
ISBN 9780226574134 (hardcover)
022657413X (hardcover)
9780226574271 (electronic book)
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Language English
Description 407 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number E169.1 .Y24 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-393) and index.
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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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