Kathryn Grover - Hard at Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hard at play : leisure in America, 18401940 / edited by Kathryn Grover. p. cm. "This collection of essays originated from the Symposium "American Play, 18201900" which took place at the Strong Museum on November 6 and 7,1987"Introduction. Includes index. ISBN 0-87023-792-6 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-87023-793-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. LeisureUnited StatesHistoryCongresses. 2. LeisureSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory Congresses. 3. RecreationUnited StatesHistoryCongresses. 4. RecreationSocial aspectsUnited States History Congresses. I. Grover, Kathryn, 1953- . II. Symposium "American Play, 18201900" (1987 : Strong Museum) GV53.H28 1992 790'.01'350973dc20 91-39908 CIP
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Unless otherwise indicated, the illustrations in this book are from the Strong Museum collections.
Frontispiece: "Snap the Whip" (reversed), by Winslow Homer, Harper's Weekly, 20 September 1873.
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Contents
Introduction: Are We Having Fun Yet?
Katherine C. Grier
1
Recreation in a Christian America: Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, New Jersey, 18691914
Glenn Uminowicz
8
"The Germans Take Care of Our Celebrations": Middle-Class Americans Appropriate German Ethnic Culture in Buffalo in the 1850s
David A. Gerber
39
Roller-Skating toward Industrialism
Dwight W. Hoover
61
American Angling: The Rise of Urbanism and the Romance of the Rod and Reel
Colleen J. Sheehy
77
"Another Branch of Manly Sport": American Rifle Games, 18401900
Russell S. Gilmore
93
A Room with a Viewer: The Parlor Stereoscope, Comic Stereographs, and the Psychic Role of Play in Victorian America
Shirley Wajda
112
Ladies of Leisure: Domestic Photography in the Nineteenth Century
Madelyn Moeller
139
Children's Play in American Autobiographies, 18201914
Bernard Mergen
161
Fox and Geese in the School Yard: Play and America's Country Schools, 18701940
Andrew Gulliford
188
Page vi
The Natural Limits of Unstructured Play, 18801914
Donald J. Mrozek
210
A Glossary of Outdoor Games
James Wilder and Robyn Hansen, Compilers
227
Contributors
251
Index
253
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Introduction: Are We Having Fun Yet?
Katherine C. Grier
This collection of essays originated from the symposium "American Play: 18201900," which took place at the Strong Museum on November 6 and 7,1987. The symposium, part of an ongoing series of scholarly meetings the museum has organized since 1984, differed from its predecessors in that it was not associated with the opening of a new exhibition on a related topic. Rather, "American Play" grew out of a perceived need on the part of a number of staff members, including me, who were interested in furthering the museum's interpretation of the history of leisure pursuits and children's play. Previous exhibitions at the Strong, particularly
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