Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a lithograph describing the prophecy of Old Mother Shipton, after 1828. A cartoon is pictured above with men and women in fine dress riding and crashing in horseless carriages of all sizes and inventions, which billow smoke or steam. Underneath, the caption reads "Carriages without horses shall go, / And accidents fill the world with woe.". Under this, there is a brief commentary both touting the veracity of the statement and questioning the legitimacy of its source as a prophecy. Photoprint reads: "Old Mother Shipton has been vindicated insofar as this part of her prophecy is concerned. Of course, it is now generally believed that the verse, of which the foregoing is only a part, was a hoax to the extent that the predictions were circulated after most of the predicted things had come to pass. But it must be admitted that the author of the introductory lines anticipated present--day traffic problems. The comic sketch here shown appeared in 1828 shortly after the advent of steam carriages which was nearly four centuries after Mother Shipton is supposed to have lived. The artist was himself something of a seer because he attempted to show how the streets would some day be clogged by horseless carriages".
Type
image
Format
1 microfilm frame : negative, b&w 35 mm. 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. microfilms photographic prints photographs art
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