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Miss Modern magazine fortune tellerFront cover of Miss Modern magazine for November 1931, featuring a young gipsy fortune teller with a crystal ball (and the free gipsy ring, found FREE inside the magazine!). Date: 1931
The Pocket MarconigraphPredicting the mobile phone - man stranded at sea sends a message on his Pocket Marconigraph Date: 1914
Fortune teller in Greenwich Park, south east London 1843A fortune teller speaks to a young couple in Greenwich Park, south east London. Date: 1843
Caravaggio (1573-1610). Italian painter. The Fortune Teller. 1596-1597. Oil on canvas. Museum of Louvre. Paris. France
Hanoi, Vietnam - A blind street fortune-teller predicting future fortunes... Date: circa 1910s
The Fortune Teller by J. R. SkeltonFour girls sit by the fire in their nightwear as one of them predicts the future - perhaps who they will marry - by consulting some playing cards. Date: 1914
Elberfeld MonorailThe suspended overhead street railway at Elberfeld-Barmen, Germany. When this photograph was taken, experts were predicting that buses and trams would be suspended too! Date: 1930s
Religious ProphecyingA man and a woman at a London fair wear tabards predicting dire consequences for unbelievers on judgement day Date: 1960s
The Clairvoyante who Foretold her own Marriage by H M BatemaA sequential cartoon by H.M. Bateman showing a woman studying cards to tell her own future. Believing they re predicting she ll meet the man she ll marry imminently
Palm reader Zingora lets a lady know her love is truePalm reader Zingora lets a lady know that somebody loves her madly! Is it the gentleman who is next in line...?! Date: circa 1907
The Crystal GazersTwo girls sit in front of a fire and gaze into a crystal ball, wondering what the future holds. Date: 1911
Benson Herberts LabAn experiment in predicting and/or influencing screen imagery, at Benson Herberts Paraphysical Laboratory, Downton [photo 2] Date: 1989
When Will the War End?Military experts, blindfolded and clueless, decide when the war will end and why in 1915. Nobody looks as if they have a clue
In 1960 - or thereaboutsA humorous pictorial forecast by George Studdy from 1908 predicting how electrical inventions would change life in 1960. Credit should read
Tide predicting machine: front viewPhotograph of the front view of the tide-predicting machine, designed by Lord Kelvin in 1876. Constructed by Lege for the Indian government
Indian AstronomerAn Indian Astronomer studies his charts
Future Flying MachineTwo years before the Wright brothers flight, illustrators were already predicting that flying machines like this would be among things to come
Psychokinesis ExperimentAn experiment in predicting and/or influencing screen imagery, at Benson Herberts Paraphysical Laboratory, Downton