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Author: E. John B. Allen
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558490475
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This text examines the history of skiing in America, from its utilitarian origins to its transformation into a purely recreational activity. It integrates the history of skiing in the context of cultural, social and economic developments.

Author: Erie City Iron Works (Erie, Pa.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Antoine's Restaurant, New Orleans
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Languages : en
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Author: George B. Carpenter & Co. (Chicago, Ill.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Pages : 32

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Author: Harvey S. Teal
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570033841
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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This work recounts the history of the men and women who captured a century of South Carolina images, from photography's introduction in the state through to 1940.

Author: Robert Bogdan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022622743X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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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: Charles L. Venable
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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This volume explores the history and development of the American silver industry. It chronicles the work of firms such as Tiffany, Gorham, Meridan Britannia, and Reed and Barton, along with that of makers such as Whiting, Wendt, Wood and Hughs, Scheibler, and Gale.

Author: Janine Burke
Publisher: Greenhouse Publishing Company
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Joy Hester - Thea Proctor - Ethel Spowers - Edith Holmes - Grace Crowley - Nora Heysen - Clarice Beckett - Grace Cossington Smith - Hilda Rix Nicholas.