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Y2K Snowglobe, 1999
At Home International and Walker, Kenneth H.1999
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
The advent of the new millennium was an occasion for both anxiety and levity. Fears of a global computer meltdown due to the Y2K bug were gently satirized by the exploding computer parts in this "01-01-00"-branded snowglobe.
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- Title: Y2K Snowglobe, 1999
- Creator: At Home International, Walker, Kenneth H.
- Date: 2000-01-01
- Date Created: 1999
- Location: China
- Subject Keywords: Year 2000 date conversion (Computer systems), Computers, Commemorations, Snow globes, Commemoratives, Knickknacks
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Snow globe
- Object ID: 2003.108.1
- Manufacturer: At Home International
- Image ID: THF150785
- Field: Computing
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Kenneth H. Walker.
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