Remembrance of Things Present
Remembrance of Things Present

Author: Nick Yablon

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-06-12

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 022657413X

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Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be remembered—or if it would be remembered at all. Yablon details how diverse Americans – from presidents and mayors to advocates for the rights of women, blacks, and workers – constructed prospective memories of their present. They did so by contributing not just written testimony to time capsules but also sources that historians and archivists considered illegitimate, such as photographs, phonograph records, films, and everyday artifacts. By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures.

Cartboy and the Time Capsule
Cartboy and the Time Capsule

Author: L. A. Campbell

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0765333171

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Sixth-grader Hal gets a year-long journal-keeping assignment in his least favorite class, history, much to the delight of his history buff father.

Paris Time Capsule
Paris Time Capsule

Author: Ella Carey

Publisher: MIRA

Published: 2016-08-22

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781489210630

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A stunning novel about a long-forgotten Paris apartment - based on a true story. New York-based photographer Cat Jordan is ready to begin a new life and home with her boyfriend. But when she learns that she's inherited the estate of a complete stranger--a woman named Isabelle de Florian--her life is turned upside down. Cat arrives in Paris to find that she is now the owner of a perfectly preserved Belle �poque apartment in the ninth arrondissement, and that the Frenchwoman's family knew nothing about this secret estate. Amid these strange developments, Cat is left with burning questions: Who was Isabelle de Florian? And why did she leave the inheritance to Cat instead of her own family? As Cat travels through the south of France in search of answers, she feels her grasp on her New York life starting to slip. With long-buried secrets coming to light and an attraction to Isabelle de Florian's grandson growing too intense to ignore, Cat will have to decide what to let go of, and what to claim as her own.

The Time Capsule
The Time Capsule

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0307434028

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In first grade, twins Alexis and Adam wrote down what they wanted to be when they grew up and put it in their teacher’s time capsule. Now entering their senior year in high school, they are surprised to find out what they wrote: Alexis wanted to “help people” and Adam wanted to be a fireman. But that was before Adam got sick and their family fell apart. Adam’s leukemia is now in remission but, sadly, so is the twins’ family. Their mother and father are always working—not only don’t they have time for Alexis and Adam, they don’t have time for each other. Alexis can’t even convince them to take a weekend off for one last family vacation to Disney World. No one is prepared when Adam gets sick again, but this time Alexis is not alone. Adam’s illness reunites the family. And Alexis discovers that the time capsule predictions weren’t so far off the mark.

Secret of the Time Capsule
Secret of the Time Capsule

Author: Joan Lowery Nixon

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2012-10-16

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 1453282785

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DIVInside a time capsule, Brian and Sean discover a decades-old mystery/divDIV In 1918, the people of Redoaks buried a time capsule full of messages for the future. Besides all the grown-up stuff, the fourth-graders of 1918 included a packet of letters to the fourth-graders of today—which means Sean Quinn is about to get a letter straight from the past! But when it comes time to crack the capsule’s seal, Sean and his brother Brian learn that its contents could change the town’s future forever./divDIV /divDIVBoris Vlado, the only surviving member of the fourth-graders of 1918, warns the boys that the time capsule holds a dangerous secret. But when they open the capsule, there’s nothing inside! To find out why, Brian and Sean will have to solve a historic mystery that involves bank robbery, corruption, and the most valuable stamp collection Redoaks has ever seen./div

The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit
The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit

Author: Octavia Spencer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1442476834

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Meet Randi Rhodes, the world’s first ninja detective! Mystery abounds in this “assured, entertaining whodunit” (Publishers Weekly), a 2014 IndieNext pick and the first in a new middle grade series from Academy Award–winning actress Octavia Spencer. Deer Creek is a small town whose only hope for survival is the success of their Founder’s Day Festival. But the festival’s main attraction, a time capsule that many people believe hold the town’s treasure, has gone missing. Twelve-year-old Randi Rhodes and her best friend, D.C., are Bruce Lee–inspired ninjas and local detectives determined to solve the case. Even if it means investigating a haunted cabin and facing mean old Angus McCarthy, prime suspect. They have three days to find the treasure…the future of their whole town is at stake! Will these kids be able to save the day?

Time Capsule
Time Capsule

Author: Maggie Umber

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781937541071

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Time Capsule is a cache of sketchbook drawings and the visual poetry of animals existing in nature.

Time Capsules
Time Capsules

Author: William E. Jarvis

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0786480955

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Time capsules have been used for thousands of years to store for posterity a selection of objects thought to be representative of life at a particular time. Such vessels have the dual purpose of causing participants to ponder their own cultural era and think about those to come. This work is a cultural history of five thousand years of time capsules and other related time-information transfer experiences. It examines both the formal and the popular culture aspects of the time capsule, from its roots in ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian building foundation deposits to the present utilization of spacecraft probes and other extreme locations. The deposits of 3000 BCE deliberately had no definite date and time to be opened; in 1876 CE came the idea of target-dated deposits. Also discussed are how "real" time capsules work, notional and archaeological time capsules, the height of the time capsule's popularity from 1935 to 1982, the preservation of writings in time capsules, keeping time in a perpetual futurescape, and turn of the century hype surrounding millennium time capsules.

Andy Warhol's Time Capsule 21
Andy Warhol's Time Capsule 21

Author: Andy Warhol

Publisher: Dumont

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Essays by John W. Smith, Mario Kramer and Matt Wrbican. Introduction by Thomas Sokolowski and Udo Kittelmann.

Time Capsule
Time Capsule

Author: Robin Kahn

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13:

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"Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists is the result of an open letter send to a large network of women artists, poets and collaborative organizations .... Each recipient was invited to contribute a work for the anthology and them to pass the invitation like a chain letter ... The anthology is alphabetized according to the subject headings invented by each author." -- p. vi.