24 classic high-speed photographic sequences reproduced from rare 1887 plates capture nude and seminude male and female subjects running, dancing, wrestling, and more. Publisher's Note. Captions.

"196 plates (containing over 4700 individual photographs) from the famous Muybridge collection, chosen for their value to artists, doctors, and researchers"--Jacket.

Large (2" x 7") beautiful bookmarks featuring characters and scenes from Beatrix Potter stories.

Six masterly studies by great French painter, painstakingly reproduced in postcard form: The Dance Examination, The Dance Class, Dancer in a Rose Dress, The Rehearsal, 2 more. Captions.

Handsome collection features 24 perennially popular felines in a panoply of inviting poses — perched on snow-covered tree limbs, nestled in pine needles, contemplating a goblet of goldfish, or sitting pretty in a topcat pose. Just detach and mail to delight any cat fancier.

More than two thousand amusement parks dotted the American landscape in the early twentieth century, thrilling the general public with the latest in entertainment and motion picture technology. Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity. As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended society before World War I, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. As she follows the rise of American parks from 1896 to 1918, Rabinovitz seizes on a simultaneous increase in cinema and spectacle audiences and connects both to the success of leisure activities in stabilizing society.--