IN FUTURO1901F.W. READGOUACHE, 24 x 18″PUBLISHED IN LIFE, DECEMBER 5, 1901The original Life ma

IN FUTURO

1901

F.W. READ

GOUACHE, 24 x 18″

PUBLISHED IN LIFE, DECEMBER 5, 1901

The original Life magazine began as a weekly in the 19th century and published many gags about the technological future around 1900. The actual caption for this full-page joke was: In Futuro. “You are nearly an hour late, dear.” “Yes, the air ship broke down, and I had to fly home.”

Scan and transcribed text from Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future, by Norman Brosterman.