Great American CarouselThis 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. |
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Allan Herschell Company American carousel amusement park ARMORED HORSE began C. W. Parker Amusement CARNIVAL carousel animals carousel company CAROUSEL FACTORY carousel figures CAROUSEL HORSES carousel maker carousel manufacturing carousel restoration CATHY DANIEL Charles Carmel Charles Looff Cherny coats COLLECTION OF JOHN Coney Island COURTESY OF SMITHSONIAN craftsmen D. C. Müller Daniel Müller Dare Company Dare's DENTZEL AND FAMILY Dentzel carousel Dentzel Company ENGLAND CAROUSEL MUSEUM finished FREELS FOUNDATION COLLECTION gears glue Gustav Dentzel head heritage Herschell-Spillman Company JAN DAVIS Joe Leonard JOHN AND CATHY Lake Compounce LEFT Leonard M. C. Illions machine mane MARCUS CHARLES ILLIONS master carver menagerie merry-go-round Müller and Bro North Tonawanda operating OUTSIDE-ROW paint Parker Amusement Company Philadelphia Toboggan Company PHOTO photographs produced riders RIVERVIEW PARK SEA BREEZE PARK Six Flags SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Spillman Engineering Corp style talented TOBOGGAN COMPANY CAROUSEL trappings traveling carousels trolley parks William Dentzel wood woodcarving