Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

by Michael Lesy

Book Overview

Pull the yellowed card from the box and slide it into the viewer. Two binocular images, nearly identical, reveal a scene from the past in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Transcending space and time, the card shows the world as it existed in 1900, a moment when technology collapsed borders; when wars ignited between great powers; when natural forces brought disaster on surging, vulnerable cities--a moment very much like our own.

In 1900 the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039323973X
• ISBN13: 9780393239737
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.8" x 10.3"