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Image 1: Panorama of Luna Park, 1907. Courtesy Library of Congress. available <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a12012>
Image 2: (History button) Luna Park tower at night, 1903. Courtesy New York Public Library. available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801287>
Image 3: (Society button) Still from Josie's Coney Island Nightmare, 1914. Courtesy New York Public Library. available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?TH-24718>
Image 4: (Entertainment and Technology button) Infant Incubators exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition, 1901. Courtesy The Libraries, the University of Buffalo. available <http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/exhibits/panam/hsl/incubbldg.html>
Image 5: (Imagination button) Elephant Bazaar Hotel, c. 1900. Courtesy New York Public Library. available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801272>
Image 6: (Sources button) At the Steeplechase sheet music, 1902. Courtesy New York Public Library. available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?G99C787_001>
Image 7: (About button) Thunderbolt roller coaster, 1995. Public Domain image. available <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ThunderboltConeyIsland1995.jpg>
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Image 1: Manhattan Beach, c1902. Courtesy Library of Congress, available <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a12067>.
Image 2: Sea Lion Park, 1897. Courtesy Coney Island History Site. available <http://www.westland.net/coneyisland/articles/sealionpark.htm>
Image 3: Brighton Beach Hotel Moving. Courtesy Library of Congress. available <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b01807>
Image 4: Elephant Hotel, c. 1900. Courtesy New York Public Library, available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801272>.
Image 5: Steeplechase Ticket. Courtesy Steeplechase Park. available <http://www.pdxhistory.com/html/steeplechase.html>
Image 6: Steeplechase Park. c. 1912. Courtesy of Library of Congress. <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c05303>
Image 7: Luna Park Entrance. c 1903. Courtesy of Coney Island- Luna Park. <http://www.westland.net/coneyisland/articles/lunapark.htm>
Image 8:World Columbian Exposition. 1893. Courtesy Library of Congress. available <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b40727>
Image 9: Electric Tower. c. 1905. Courtesy of Library of Congress. available <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a12426>
Image 10: Dreamland Tower. 10 Jul 1905. Courtesy Library of Congress. available <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/gsc.5a29909>
Image 11: Dreamland Park Fire, c. 1911. Courtesy Library of Congress. available <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a11998>
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Image 13: Luna Park. c. 1905. Courtesy of Library of Congress. available <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a12427>
Coney Island . Dir. Ric Burns. DVD. PBS Home Video, 1991. [all references to "Coney Island" point here]
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Image 1: Samantha on the Beach at Coney, from Samantha At Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands, 1911. Courtesy the Internet Archive, available <http://www.archive.org/details/samanthaconey00hollrich>.
Image 2: A decidedly mixed-gender group emerges from an early "Tunnel of Love," from Samantha At Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands, 1911. Courtesy the Internet Archive, available <http://www.archive.org/details/samanthaconey00hollrich>.
Image 3: The Court of Honor at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893. Public Domain image, available <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Court_of_Honor_and_Grand_Basin.jpg>.
Image 4: Surf Avenue Businesses, May 1922. Courtesy Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, available <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/maxwell/M03/M0330-72dpi.html>.
Image 5: Two men survey Luna Park, 1911. Courtesy Shorpy Vintage Photos, available <http://www.shorpy.com/node/1823>.
Image 6: "A Chowder Party," from The History of Coney Island from its First Discovery in 4, 11, 44, Down to Last Night in Rhyme, 1878. Courtesy New York Public Library, available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801300>.
Image 7: The Mall at Central Park, c. 1892. Courtesy New York Public Library, available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?718272F>.
Image 8: Crowds on Stillwell Avenue, c. 1913. Courtesy New York Public Library, available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?706977F>.
Image 9: Crowds at Luna Park, 1917. Courtesy New York Public Library, available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801319>.
Image 10: The Bowery at Coney Island, from Samantha At Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands, 1911. Courtesy the Internet Archive, available <http://www.archive.org/details/samanthaconey00hollrich>.
Image 11: "Bathing at the West End", from The History of Coney Island from its First Discovery in 4, 11, 44, Down to Last Night in Rhyme, 1878. Courtesy New York Public Library, available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801302>.
Image 12: Men acting like boys on the Steeplechase ride, from Samantha At Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands, 1911. Courtesy the Internet Archive, available <http://www.archive.org/details/samanthaconey00hollrich>.
Image 13: The New Woman on the beach - "Dry Goods", from The History of Coney Island from its First Discovery in 4, 11, 44, Down to Last Night in Rhyme, 1878. Courtesy New York Public Library, available <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801308>.
Image 14: "Waltz Me 'till I'm Weary, Dearie" sheet music cover art, 1910. Courtesy Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, available <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/a/a31/a3184/>
Image 15: Samantha on the Helter Skelter slide, from Samantha At Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands, 1911. Courtesy the Internet Archive, available <http://www.archive.org/details/samanthaconey00hollrich>.
Image 16: A “hoochie coochie” dancer. Courtesy the Museum of the City of New York, available <http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/Detlobjps.cfm?ObjectID=17362&rec_num
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"Luna Park First Night; Coney Island Visitors Dazzled by Electric City. Many Colored Illuminations and Canals -- A Midway of Nations and a Trip to the Moon Replace the Old-Time Recreations." 17 May 1903. New York Times Online. 1 Dec. 2007 http://query.nytimes.com
Image 1: "The miniature railway, Coney Island, N.Y.", from Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection, 1905. Courtesy New York Public Library, available http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801285
Image 2: Brooklyn Trolley Car: 1913. Courtesy Shorpy Vintage Photos, available http://www.shorpy.com/fresh-air-outing.
Image 3: Coney Island Orphans: 1911. Courtesy Shorpy Vintage Photos, available http://www.shorpy.com/node/265
Image 4: "Island Queen: 1907. Courtesy Shorpy Vintage Photos, available http://www.shorpy.com/node/1513
Image 5: "Main Tower, Luna Park," from Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection, 1908. Courtesy New York Public Library, available http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801275
Image 6: "Shooting the Chutes at Coney Island", from Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection, 1899. Courtesy New York Public Library, available http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801296
Image 7: View of passengers in the barrel-shaped cars of an amusement ride at Coney Island, from Byron Collection Company Online, c.1908. Courtesy Museum of the City of New York, available http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/Detlobjps.cfm?ObjectID=29933
Image 8: "The flip-flap", c.1900. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Divison Washington, D.C., available http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b10985
Image 9: "Coney Island Nurses, c.1910. Courtesy of webmaster Neonatology on the Web. available http://www.neonatology.org/pinups/coneyislandnurses.html
Video Clip 1: "Electrocuting an Elephant," film clip. Courtesy You Tube, available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkBU3aYsf0Q
Immerso, Michael. Coney Island: The People's Playground. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
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Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1986.
Image 1: "View of Coney Island at Night", postcard. Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Gallery, available http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?836513
Image 2: "At the Steeplechase", (1902) sheet music by Warren R. Walker. Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Gallery, available http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?G99C787_001
Image 3: "Ballroom at Dreamland", (1905) photograph. Courtesy Library of Congress, available http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/AMALL:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28det1994010622/PP%29%29
Image 4: "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", (1909) sheet music by Leo Friedman. Courtesy Library of Congress, available http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100006089/default.html
Image 5: "John Philip Sousa", photograph. Courtesy Library of Congress, available http://www.americancorner.org.tw/
AmericasLibrary/category/page/aa/music/sousa.htmImage 6: "Interior of Coney Island Clubhouse", (1899) photograph. Courtsey Library of Congress, available http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?pp/PPALL:@field%28DOCID+@lit%282007681314%29%29
Image 7: "Josie's Coney Island Nightmare", (1914) still photograph of film scene. Courtsey New York Public Library Digital Gallery, available http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?TH-24717
Image 8: "A Coney Island of the Mind" Lawerence Ferlinghetti Book Cover. Courtesy Amazon.com, available http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0811200418.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Image 9: "A History of Coney Island", (1878) book title page. Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Gallery, available http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801299
Image 10: "Walt Whitman", photograph. Courtesy Wikipedia Commons, available http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Walt_Whitman_edit_2.jpg
Image 11: "E.E. Cummings", photograph. Courtesy NNDB, available http://www.nndb.com/people/960/000024888/
Image 12: "Dreamland Tower", photograph by Charles F. Flower. Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Gallery, available http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?836495
Sound File 1:"The Manhattan Beach March", (1893) by John Philip Sousa. Courtesy the Internet Archive, available http://www.archive.org/details/elcapitan1912
Sound File 2: "Coming Home from Coney Isle" Jones and Spencer, 1906. Courtesy the Internet Archive, available http://www.archive.org/details/Jones_and_Spencer-Coming_Home_From_Coney_Isle
Sound File 3: "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", (1910) by Henry Burr. Courtesy the Internet Archive, available http://www.archive.org/details/HenryBurr
Sound File 4: "By the Beautiful Sea", (1914) sung by Ada Jones and Billy Watkins. Courtesy the Internet Archive, available http://www.archive.org/details/AdaJonesBillyWatkins
Video Clip 1: "Brighton Beach" (1896), film clip. Courtesy You Tube, available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udoI_VDsNHM
Video Clip 2: "Shooting the Chutes" (1896), film clip, Thomas Edison. Courtesy Library of Congress, available http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/AMALL:@field%28DOCID+@lit%2800563608%29%29
Video Clip 3: "Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle at Coney Island", 1917. Courtesy youtube.com, available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-H06G7eiE
Long Island Historical Society. Postcard Collection.
Image 1: Photo illustration by Ryan Lintelman based on a photograph in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
