Title: The outdoor amusement industry
Subtitle: From Earliest Times to the Present
Description: A chronicle of the history of the amusement park attraction and roller coaster industry from early days through the 1950s.
Subjects: Amusement parks, History, Amusement Park, amusement park history, Roller coasters, roller coaster history, amusement attractions, amusement device, Theme parks & funfairs, TRAVEL / Amusement & Theme Parks, Amusement & Theme Parks, fairground, Fairground organs, band organ, band organs, Russian Ice Slide, carousel industry, carousel, carousels, carousel history, carousel building, Menageries, Ferris Wheel, First Ferris Wheel, World's Fair
Places: Coney Island (New York, N.Y.), Russia, Paris (France), France, United States, Chicago (Ill.), Chicago (Illinois)
People: Frederick Ferris Thompson
Time periods: 1800-1950, the middle ages, 150 BC to early 20th century, 150 BCE, 150 BC, sixteenth century, Fourteenth century