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A Woman Playing Golf poster
This is a poster of a woman golfer in 1907. It is interesting to notice that the outfit of the figure - a long dress and high heels - is not professional golf clothes. Her gesture looks relatively realistic but the overall expressive focuses more on…
New York Metropolitans team photograph
The Metropolitans were founded in 1880 as an independent professional team by business entrepreneur John B. Day and baseball manager Jim Mutrie. Like New York area clubs, the team initially played its games in Brooklyn and in Hoboken, New Jersey.…
ben horwitz- technology PLACEHOLDER
Lawn - Belmont (LOC)
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…
Annie Oakley Poster
In class we have discussed the agency of women in the Circus and at Exhibitions. From the readings little was said about the agency of women in Wild West Shows. Here I will explore my ideas about women in Wild West Shows in context of the item. In…
Drawing of Elephant Hotel
..to be edited further..The Elephant Hotel in Coney Island was one of three elephants designed and built by James Lafferty. It opened in 1885 and was located st Surf Avenue and West 12th street. The seven story tall structure included 34 guest rooms…
Postcard from Coney Island
postcard 1909...more to be added...-Madeleiene Hodges
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…
Dahomey Village, on the Midway
This is the outside of Dahomey Village, a recreation of a West African village. The visitors, all white and dressed in modern Western clothes make a sharp contrast with the posters outside the village of half naked men with weapons. Also, the…
China Centennial Main Building
Despite China's late arrival to the Centennial and limited space for their exhibit, China's exhibit was made extremely unique by their use of partitions along the perimeter and the addition of a roof to the exhibit. This enclosure blocked…
Japanese assimilation Comic
The caption to this comic should read in the first frame "Go, my son, go and study the civilization of the Occident" and "I am industriously studying the civilization of these Americans but it is very expensive. Please send me a bag of dollars" in…