Great American Carousel

Great American Carousel
Author: Tobin Fraley
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1994-10-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780811806343

This entertaining visual celebration offers a closeup look at the carousel not only as amusement but as cultural icon and craft. Rare historical photographs portray America's earliest wooden carousels, their creators, and the shops where they were carved. Full-color portraits display fanciful pigs, frogs, and tigers as well as an array of magnificent decorated horses.

Great American Carousel

Great American Carousel
Author: Tobin Fraley
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1994-10-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780811806343

This entertaining visual celebration offers a closeup look at the carousel not only as amusement but as cultural icon and craft. Rare historical photographs portray America's earliest wooden carousels, their creators, and the shops where they were carved. Full-color portraits display fanciful pigs, frogs, and tigers as well as an array of magnificent decorated horses.

Grab the Brass Ring

Grab the Brass Ring
Author: Anne Dion Hinds
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1990
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The author traces the merry-go-round's history from its heyday at the turn of the century to the present day. 150 full-color photographs.

Flying Horses

Flying Horses
Author: Peter J. Malia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2010-10-27
Genre: Merry-go-round art
ISBN: 9780982546826

Selected as "Top Pick" by Midwest Review. First fully annotated and illustrated art and social history of American carousels and their creators during the Golden Age of American Carousel Art, 1870 - 1930. Featuring the world-class collection of The New England Carousel Museum, this award-winning book provides a visual and narrative reference to the rise of American mass entertainment, which sprang up from the revolutions in industry, urban electrification, transportation and immigration that helped to shape a nation at play.