En l’an 2000_Jean-Marc Côté_Collage01

Collection of eight images; Labelled 01-08 earlier

This gallery depicts a series of futuristic pictures by the French painter Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images described the world as it was imagined to be like in the then distant year of 2000.

At least 87 were produced, and I have managed to capture 73 of them 😊. While a few were on point (A version of Skype or Facetime), many were wildly off-tangent (underwater croquet, anyone?). And all are definitely worth a look!

Sources: All images are in the public domain; Most were obtained from gallica.bnf.fr/
, although I had to edit a few to render them in higher resolution.

Taken on: June 29, 2022

Tags:

predictions

science

vintage

future

France

y2k

2000

Nostradamus « less

Sets appears in: • En L'An 2000

Groups appears in: • Views: 300 • 1 day we'll have the most photos on Flickr

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