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Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris, 1900

cenoxo — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:03:27 -0800

Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris, 1900. Approximately 200 antique photographs of Paris at the turn of the 19th century, mostly from the 1900 Paris World's Fair. French CG artist Laurent Antoine is reconstructing the Exposition in Maya 3D. Bienvenue!

People will live for 50 years!

antifuse — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:03:13 -0800

In the year 1900, Ladies Home Journal writer John Elfreth Watkins Jr wrote an article entitled What May Happen In The Next 100 Years". This is apparently what the most learned, conservative men of the "greatest institutions of science and learning" had to say about the coming hundred years.

Simon Wiesenthal, 1908-2005

matteo — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:22:30 -0800

Goodnight, mr. Wiesenthal

A Visit to Old Los Angeles

carter — Fri, 21 May 2004 12:25:25 -0800

A Visit to Old Los Angeles "A pictorial survey of downtown Los Angeles, and certain other areas, focusing on the years 1900 to 1915, though occasionally making use of images from other times. This series will follow, primarily by means of actual postcards of the era, the travels of a farming family from the great plains as they visit Los Angeles and its environs in the early years of the Twentieth Century." In 29 episodes, and with lots of postcards.

MetaFilter posts tagged with 1900

Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris, 1900

People will live for *50 years!*

Simon Wiesenthal, 1908-2005

A Visit to Old Los Angeles

People will live for 50 years!