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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.

Weird and Wonderful The Dime Museum in America

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    A Paperback / softback by Andrea Stulman Dennett

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      Publisher: New York University Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/1997
      ISBN13: 9780814718865, 978-0814718865
      ISBN10: 0814718868
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      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.

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