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Along with the Dreaming Iolanthe, Caroline Brooks also created the Awakening of Iolanthe in 1878. It bears a striking resemblance to Dreaming Iolanthe though created two years later. The amount of detail in the sculpture shows that she knew the…

This photograph many other photographs from the era—especially in regards to World’s Fairs and Exhibitions—in that it does not focus so much on the physical attributes of Brighton Beach or Coney Island as a whole, but rather on the people and the…

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…

"A 24 page soft-cover program of the Nineteenth Annual Fair of the Bedford County Agriculture Society held in Shelbyville, Tennessee beginning on September 5, 1889. The booklet includes lists of stockholders, advertisements, and the agricultural…

Belmont is one of the longest-running horse races in the country. Pictured is the raised grandstands. In accordance with Mullan's article, in which he quotes E.J. Hobsbawn as observing that "sport had become 'a mass spectacle... transformed into the…

A poster advertising the Buffalo, NY exposition.Electricity became more than the theme for major theme for the Buffalo exhibition; it provided a visible symbol of progress. This argument it presented visually in the poster by the buffalo,…