Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography

Author: Albert A. Hopkins

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography" by Albert A. Hopkins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Fight Pictures
Fight Pictures

Author: Dan Streible

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-04-11

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0520250753

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In 1897 a filmed prize-fight became one of cinema's first major attractions, and such films continued to enjoy great popularity for many years to come. This work chronicles the story of how legitimate bouts, fake fights, comic sparring matches, and other forms of boxing came to dominate the screens of the silent-era.

Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad
Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad

Author: William Herman Rau

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2002-03-26

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0812236254

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This volume reproduces almost 100 remarkably detailed and texturally rich photographs. Essays by noted historians John Stilgoe, Mary Panzer, and Kenneth Finkel place Rau and his work in the context of the history of American advertising and landscape photography.

Ziska
Ziska

Author: Marie Corelli

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-13

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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"Ziska" is a supernatural and thrilling story about love, passion, treason and revenge, set in the late 19th-century Cairo. Ziska is a reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian woman who was killed by her lover once he got tired of her. The reincarnated Ziska is beautiful, mysterious, seductive, and has stolen the hearts of all the young men, including the famous French painter Armand Gervase, who has just arrived in Cairo. Gervase immediately falls for Ziska, feeling that he knows her from somewhere. At same time, he is the only man Ziska has eyes for, because he looks exactly like the man who killed her...