The kid of Coney Island : Fred Thompson and the rise of American amusements /
by Register, Woody.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001Description: xi, 400 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0195144937.Other title: Fred Thompson and the rise of American amusements.Subject(s): Thompson, Fred, 1873-1919 | Amusement park owners -- Biography. -- New York (State) -- New YorkOnline resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information
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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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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