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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780814744215
035 _a(DE-B1597)547700
035 _a(OCoLC)782877979
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aAM11
_b.D46 1997
072 7 _aHIS036000
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082 0 4 _a069/.0973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDennett, Andrea Stulman
_eautore
245 1 0 _aWeird and Wonderful :
_bThe Dime Museum in America /
_cAndrea Stulman Dennett.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[1997]
264 4 _c©1997
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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520 _aDioramas 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 its amusements and in its democratic appeal, with audiences traversing the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, and class. Andrea Stulman Dennett's Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America recaptures this ephemeral and scarcely documented institution of American culture from the margins of history. Weird and Wonderful chronicles the evolution of the dime museum from its eighteenth-century inception as a "cabinet of curiosities" to its death at the hands of new amusement technologies in the early twentieth century. From big theaters which accommodated audiences of three thousand to meager converted storefronts exhibiting petrified wood and living anomalies, this study vividly reanimates the array of museums, exhibits, and performances that make up this entertainment institution. Tracing the scattered legacy of the dime museum from vaudeville theater to Ripley's museum to the talk show spectacles of today, Dennett makes a significant contribution to the history of American popular entertainment.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aCuriosities and wonders
_xMuseums
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aDime museums
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEccentrics and eccentricities
_xMuseums
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMuseums
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPopular culture
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / General.
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653 _aWeird.
653 _aWonderful.
653 _aamusement.
653 _acabinet.
653 _acentury.
653 _achronicles.
653 _acuriosities.
653 _adeath.
653 _adime.
653 _aearly.
653 _aeighteenth-century.
653 _aevolution.
653 _afrom.
653 _ahands.
653 _ainception.
653 _amuseum.
653 _atechnologies.
653 _atwentieth.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814744215
856 4 2 _3Cover
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