Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Memory, History, Posterity 1
4. 1. Safeguarding the Nation: Photographic Offerings to the Bicentennial, 1876– 1889 21
5. 2. “P.O. Box to the Future”: Temperance, Insurgence, and Memory in San Francisco, 1879 69
6. 3. Annals of the Present, the Local, and the Everyday: The Centurial Time Vessels as Heterodox History, 1900– 1901 98
7. 4. Seeds of Hope: “Posteritism” and the Political Uses of the Future, 1900– 1901 145
8. 5. “A Living History of the Times”: The Modern Historic Records Association, 1911– 1914 191
9. 6. Mausoleums of Civilization: Techno- Corporate Appropriations of the Time Vessel, 1925– 1940 235
10. 7. Breaking the Seal: The Vicissitudes of Transtemporal Communication 287
11. Epilogue: The Time Capsule’s Futures 297
12. Acknowledgments 311
13. Abbreviations 315
14. Notes 317
15. Index 395