yahre 2000
… IM YAHRE 2000 …
[… in year 2000 …]
… is a set of twelve advertising postcards printed in Germany, in 1899, with European and American versions, anticipating some technological improvements for people’s life on year 2000, such as …
… individual and family flying machines …
… personal devices to walk on water …
… tele-audio and tele-vision …
… weather conditioning systems (to protect from rain and to produce it) …
… moving street and sidewalk pavements …
… devices to fly over the north pole and under the see …
… ships and buildings moving on rails …
… x-ray survey system
The European copies were produced for chocolate companies in Germany and Belgium; the American copies were produced for at least 14 different companies.
Most likely they have all been produced, in Berlin, at the Kuntsdruck-Friedberg printing plant.
