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Postcard from Coney Island
postcard 1909...more to be added...-Madeleiene Hodges
The Coney Island Spectacularium
the Great Coney Island Spectacularium opened at the end of the 19th century in a seaside resort in Coney Island, aiming to create more interactive live attractions and attract more tourists.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Metal
This metal was created by the committee of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. On one side it reads "Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco Metal of Award MCMXV [1915]". The building in the middle of the words appears to be…
Surf Avenue, Coney Island
While this photograph was taken at some point between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915, after the rising prevalence of the car, it bears testament to the role that avenues alongside the hotels and beach played. In likening this image to the worlds fairs of…
Beach bathing near the Iron Pier - 1880's
The seaside was a place that all people could swim. Since Coney Island bent the social rules of etiquette, men and women were allowed to frolic together and “let their hair done”. The fact that the women are being held up by two men shows how the…
On the Iron Pier, Coney Island. The rush for the last boat
Ogden's illustration is of passengers on one of the two Iron Piers built in 1878 on Coney Island. Here the illustration attempts to capture the sheer amount of people that would await the steamboats-in the year of the art's creation almost 2 million…
The Original KiKi Man Monkey
.... to be added...-Madeleine Hodges
Indian Fisherman Animation of 1893 Columbian Exposition
This picture is not a high detail photograph but rather an animation regarding what is expected to be seen at the Fair. The picture shows two men in a fishing boat, one actively fishing with a harpoon, another using a paddle to move the boat.
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Women's Building at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
These images are of the Woman's Building at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The images are from the book Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893. The first is a photograph of the…
Mammoth and Giant Octopus from the Anthropology Building of the Chicago Exposition
At Putnam's prodding, a "separate Anthropology Building on the fairgrounds" was meant to "prove the worth of building a permanent ethnological museum" (Rydell 57). Franz Boas and Joseph Jastrow were among the directors of this museum. This Mammoth…