Weird and Wonderful: Dime Museum in America

by Andrea Stulman Dennett (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $33.30

  Dioramas 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 title recaptures this ephemeral and scarcely documented institution of American culture from the margins of history.