The Challenge of One Hundred Years ... 1840-1940
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Erie City Iron Works (Erie, Pa.)
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Antoine's Restaurant, New Orleans
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. John B. Allen
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1996-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558490475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: George B. Carpenter & Co. (Chicago, Ill.)
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harvey S. Teal
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781570033841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Hildor Arnold Barton
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780809319435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"What happens to a people ... when it becomes divided and separated through a great overseas migration? ... how do the two parts of such a divided people relate to each other? What ideas do they have regarding each other as the process continues and as time and circumstance cause them to develop in separate ways of their own? The purpose of this book is to seek answers to such questions in the case of the Swedes during the period of their great migration, between roughly 1840 and 1940." -- Pref.
Author: Robert Bogdan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-12-10
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 022622743X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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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Published: 1995-02
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.