City of the Future Postcards (circa 1910)
Leominster in the Future ( postcard circa 1910 ) At the spell of the 20th C , thepostcardseemed to be a pop medium with which to imagine the future . While these limning were often clapper - in - cheek they , like the Jetsons in the sixties , hold some sum of truth about society ’s expectations for what was to total . We see in these two cards some matter we might obviously expect like fly machine , subways , auto and monorail trains ....