Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and
Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870-1920
Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870-1920
Sarah Toton, Emory University
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Recommended Resources:
CD- ROM:
Rabinovitz, Lauren. Yesteryear's Wonderlands: Introducing Modernism to America. University of Illinois Digital Press, 2008.
Print Materials:
Kasson, John. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.
Godshalk, David F. Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Goodson, Steve. Highbrows, Hillbillies and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2002.
Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Martin, Jean. Mule to Marta. Atlanta, GA: Atlanta History Center, 1975.
Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-Of-The-Century New York. Temple University Press, 1987.
Pomerantz, Gary M. Where Peachtree Street Meets Sweet Auburn. New York: Scribner, 1996.
Rabinovitz, Lauren. For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
Links:
American at Work, America at Leisure
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlhome.html
Beltline: Atlanta Connected
http://beltline.org/
Defunct Parks
http://www.defunctparks.com
Mixon, Gregory and Clifford Kuhn. "Atlanta Race Riot of 1906." New Georgia Encyclopedia
http://www.georgiaencylopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3033
Rabinovitz, Lauren. Yesteryear's Wonderlands: Introducing Modernism to America. University of Illinois Digital Press, 2008.
Print Materials:
Kasson, John. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.
Godshalk, David F. Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Goodson, Steve. Highbrows, Hillbillies and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2002.
Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Martin, Jean. Mule to Marta. Atlanta, GA: Atlanta History Center, 1975.
Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-Of-The-Century New York. Temple University Press, 1987.
Pomerantz, Gary M. Where Peachtree Street Meets Sweet Auburn. New York: Scribner, 1996.
Rabinovitz, Lauren. For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
Links:
American at Work, America at Leisure
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlhome.html
Beltline: Atlanta Connected
http://beltline.org/
Defunct Parks
http://www.defunctparks.com
Mixon, Gregory and Clifford Kuhn. "Atlanta Race Riot of 1906." New Georgia Encyclopedia
http://www.georgiaencylopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3033
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