Register, Woody,  1958- <br/><br/>
The kid of Coney Island :  Fred Thompson and the rise of American amusements  / 
 Fred Thompson and the rise of American amusements 
Woody Register. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  2001. 
 - xi, 400 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> American Window 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-387) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195144937 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001033917 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Thompson, Fred, 1873-1919. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Amusement park owners--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1852.2.T56  / R44 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.7/6179106/8092  B