Weird and Wonderful : The Dime Museum in America /

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Dioramas and panoramas, freaks and magicians, waxworks and menageries, obscure relics and stuffed animals--a dazzling assortment of curiosities attracted the gaze of the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum. This distinctly American phenomenon was unprecedented in both the diversity of it...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dennett, Andrea Stulman (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [1997]
Temas:
Curiosities and wonders > Museums > United States > History.
Dime museums > United States > History.
Eccentrics and eccentricities > Museums > United States > History.
Museums > United States > History.
Popular culture > United States > History.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Weird.
Wonderful.
amusement.
cabinet.
century.
chronicles.
curiosities.
death.
dime.
early.
eighteenth-century.
evolution.
from.
hands.
inception.
museum.
technologies.
twentieth.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Origins of the Dime Museum, 1782-1840
  • 2. Barnum and the Museum Revolution, 1841-1870
  • 3. The Peak Years: From the Civil War to 1900
  • 4. Freaks and Platform Performers
  • 5. Lecture Room Entertainments
  • 6. Waxworks and Film
  • 7. The Dime Museum Reconfigured for a New Century
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A. Chronology
  • Appendix B. Dime Museums
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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