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The kid of Coney Island : Fred Thompson and the rise of American amusements / Woody Register.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: xi, 400 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195144937
Other title:
  • Fred Thompson and the rise of American amusements
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.7/6179106/8092 B 21
LOC classification:
  • GV1852.2.T56 R44 2001
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ONE Uncle Sam's a Boy at Play 3 -- TWO The Moon for a Plaything 23 -- Fred Thompson's Apprenticeship in Play, 1873-1901 -- THREE Life Is Only a Merry-Go-Round 85 -- Luna Park, 1903-13 -- FOUR NewYork's Gigantic Toy 145 -- The Hippodrome, 1902-6 -- FIVE Millionaires and Monsters 193 -- Melodramas of Consumption, 1906-12 -- six We're Playing Games 249 -- The Toylands of Peter Pan Culture, 1912-30 -- SEVEN A Kindergarten Preacher in Toys 299 -- NOTES 323 -- INDEX 389.
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Books Books قاعة الثقاقات الاجنبية - الدور الثالث المكتبة المركزبة الجديدة - جامعة القاهرة 338.761791068092 T471r Am.W. (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Available 01000110189775000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-387) and index.

Machine generated contents note: ONE Uncle Sam's a Boy at Play 3 -- TWO The Moon for a Plaything 23 -- Fred Thompson's Apprenticeship in Play, 1873-1901 -- THREE Life Is Only a Merry-Go-Round 85 -- Luna Park, 1903-13 -- FOUR NewYork's Gigantic Toy 145 -- The Hippodrome, 1902-6 -- FIVE Millionaires and Monsters 193 -- Melodramas of Consumption, 1906-12 -- six We're Playing Games 249 -- The Toylands of Peter Pan Culture, 1912-30 -- SEVEN A Kindergarten Preacher in Toys 299 -- NOTES 323 -- INDEX 389.

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