Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Composite map of Rexford Park amusement park, 1906-1935
Photocopy of a black-and-white drawing mapping the various structures of the Rexford Park amusement park, Rexford, NY, in operation 1906-1935, and a map key. The map is reproduced as Figure 69 in 'The Amusement Park at Rexford' by George A. Farrell. Farrell describes its creation: 'The park at Rexford was constantly changing both from year to year and sometimes even during a given season. Photographs from Francis Spoonogle's collection of the park were taken over the course of park history. Re-constructing the park from those images cannot, therefore, be a 'snapshot' for any given time but rather must be a time 'composite' image [.] Several years ago, a noontime meeting was organized at the GE Research and Development Center in Niskayuna. Those attending were John Papp, Francis Spoonogle, and Gorden Turner, the latter, a legal draftsman at the Center. The objective of that meeting was to examine all the available photographs of the park and to create a composite map that showed the location of the significant rides, booths, that is, 'attractions' of the park over its history' (p. 81).
Composite map of Rexford Park amusement park, 1906-1935
Photocopy of a black-and-white drawing mapping the various structures of the Rexford Park amusement park, Rexford, NY, in operation 1906-1935, and a map key. The map is reproduced as Figure 69 in 'The Amusement Park at Rexford' by George A. Farrell. Farrell describes its creation: 'The park at Rexford was constantly changing both from year to year and sometimes even during a given season. Photographs from Francis Spoonogle's collection of the park were taken over the course of park history. Re-constructing the park from those images cannot, therefore, be a 'snapshot' for any given time but rather must be a time 'composite' image [.] Several years ago, a noontime meeting was organized at the GE Research and Development Center in Niskayuna. Those attending were John Papp, Francis Spoonogle, and Gorden Turner, the latter, a legal draftsman at the Center. The objective of that meeting was to examine all the available photographs of the park and to create a composite map that showed the location of the significant rides, booths, that is, 'attractions' of the park over its history' (p. 81).
Composite map of Rexford Park amusement park, 1906-1935
photocopy; b&w; 7.75 x 11 in. (19.8 x 27.8 cm.)
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Elektronische Ressource
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DDC:
710
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