Popular Amusements in Horse and Buggy America
Popular Amusements in Horse and Buggy America

Author: William Lawrence Slout

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 089370461X

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Well-known theatre and circus historian William L. Slout here collects together 29 first-hand accounts of 19th- and early 20th-century popular amusements, including summer resorts, watering places, agricultural fairs, World's Fairs, the circus, vaudeville, theatre, and amusement parks. Complete with index, introduction, and contemporaneous illustrations.

Political Animals
Political Animals

Author: Jesse Donahue

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780739111208

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Political Animals offers a unique study and perspective on the relationship between politics and the art found in American zoos and aquariums. Jesse Donahue and Erik Trump examine the ways that zoos and aquariums have successfully served as sculptural gardens for the masses and have incorporated art and architecture that convey political messages about both the patrons and the animals. This book demonstrates how art has been used for a range of economic and political purposes including providing jobs, a medium to reach out to minority interest groups, a fundraising tool, and a surrogate for the animals themselves. Donahue and Trump skillfully analyze and compare zoos to other areas of public art to highlight the calculated strategies on the part of the zoos that have incorporated a range of artistic styles for different audiences. Incorporating photographs of zoo and aquarium art from around the country, Political Animals is an exciting and captivating text for the mind and eye.

Theaters
Theaters

Author: Andrew Craig Morrison

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780393731088

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The latest title in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks series, Theaters offers a richly illustrated history of a revered cultural artifact and a technological challenge, following its progression from the eighteenth-century opera house to the modern movie multiplex.

John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him
John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him

Author: E. Lawrence Abel

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-04-09

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1621576191

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When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancé women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now.

BP 250
BP 250

Author: R. Reginald

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0809512068

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An Annotated Bibliography of the First 300 Publications of the Borgo Press, 1975-1998

Where We Worked
Where We Worked

Author: Jack Larkin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1461745926

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A celebration of America's workers and the nation they built. Narratives tell the stories, over time, of wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farmwives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers.