Book Description
Catalogue of an exhibition of photographs documenting the history of Coney Island. Captions for the photographs are taken from Sodom by the Sea by Oliver Pilat and Jo Ranson, and Good Old Coney Island by Edo McCullough.
Author : Kingsborough Historical Society (New York, N.Y.)
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN :
Catalogue of an exhibition of photographs documenting the history of Coney Island. Captions for the photographs are taken from Sodom by the Sea by Oliver Pilat and Jo Ranson, and Good Old Coney Island by Edo McCullough.
Author : Edo McCullough
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1957
Category : History
ISBN :
The third period was that of the nickel empire when the subways reached the island, the great hordes arrived, and Coney grew cheap and garish. In its fourth period, Coney Island became a beautiful seaside park."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Edo McCullough
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
The third period was that of the nickel empire when the subways reached the island, the great hordes arrived, and Coney grew cheap and garish. In its fourth period, Coney Island became a beautiful seaside park."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Robin Jaffee Frank
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN : 9780300189902
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, and held there January 31-May 31, 2015; at the San Diego Museum of Art, Calif., July 11-October 13, 2015; at the Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., November 20, 2015-March 13, 2016; and at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex., May 11-September 11, 2016.
Author : Edo McCullough
Publisher : Scribner
Page : pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2008-12-01
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ISBN : 9780684863399
Author : John F. Kasson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429952237
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.
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Page : pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
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Author : Robert Bogdan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 022622743X
This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.
Author : Claire Prentice
Publisher : New Harvest
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544262287
Describes the story of a group of people from the Philippines who were transported to Coney Island in 1905 to be portrayed as “headhunting, dog-eating savages” in a Luna Park freak show.
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Page : 846 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Music
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