What's amazing about this collection is how close their predictions were in a lot of cases, and how others are close at hand ... the telephone and radio during the latter decades of the 19th century.

This peculiar coincidence and the strangeness of the cards ... business now, which is enormous – it’s an industry to itself,” says Hunt. “So you imagine that in the 19th century when ...

The collection features some wonderfully weird 19th century business cards for a variety of stores in downtown Brooklyn. Check out the description for the card above: Illustration of woman on ...