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Book Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside  Or  Amusements for Young and Old

Download or read book Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside Or Amusements for Young and Old written by Caroline L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside  Or Amusements for Young and Old

Download or read book Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside Or Amusements for Young and Old written by Caroline L Smith and published by . This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside, or Amusements for young and old, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Book Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside  Or Amusements for Young and Old  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside Or Amusements for Young and Old Classic Reprint written by Aunt Carrie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside, or Amusements for Young and Old Materials used in the Game - Preparation of the Ground Choice of Sides - General Principles of the Game - Arrange; ment of the Bridges - Diagrams - Rules of the Game - Strik ing the Ball - Running a Bridge - Striking Out - The Rover - Ro'quet - Croquet and roquet-croquet - The Flinch - Sug gestions to Beginners - Hints to Players - Carpet Croquet The Board Game - Vocabulary of Terms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book POPULAR PASTIMES FOR FIELD   F

Download or read book POPULAR PASTIMES FOR FIELD F written by Caroline L. Smith and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Home Arts for Old and Young

Download or read book Home Arts for Old and Young written by Caroline L. Smith and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a helpful book on household arts. It contains numerous practical instructions on the arts or techniques concerned with the maintenance and care of a home. Contents include: Christmas Amusements for Christmas Holidays Ventriloquism Natural Magic Gardening, Flowers House and Home Arts Solitaire Games of Cards The Toilet Home Reading Directions for Making Bread, Yeast, &c Politeness

Book Indoor Games and Socials for Boys

Download or read book Indoor Games and Socials for Boys written by G. Cornelius Baker and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Playful Visions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Meredith A. Bak
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2020-03-17
  • ISBN : 0262538717
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Playful Visions written by Meredith A. Bak and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens. In the nineteenth century, the kaleidoscope, the thaumatrope, the zoetrope, the stereoscope, and other optical toys were standard accessories of a middle-class childhood, used both at home and at school. In Playful Visions, Meredith Bak argues that the optical toys of the nineteenth century were the “new media” of their era, teaching children to be discerning consumers of media—and also provoking anxieties similar to contemporary worries about children's screen time. Bak shows that optical toys—which produced visual effects ranging from a moving image to the illusion of depth—established and reinforced a new understanding of vision as an interpretive process. At the same time, the expansion of the middle class as well as education and labor reforms contributed to a new notion of childhood as a time of innocence and play. Modern media culture and the emergence of modern Western childhood are thus deeply interconnected. Drawing on extensive archival research, Bak discusses, among other things, the circulation of optical toys, and the wide visibility gained by their appearance as printed templates and textual descriptions in periodicals; expanding conceptions of literacy, which came to include visual acuity; and how optical play allowed children to exercise a sense of visual mastery. She examines optical toys alongside related visual technologies including chromolithography—which inspired both chromatic delight and chromophobia. Finally, considering the contemporary use of optical toys in advertising, education, and art, Bak analyzes the endurance of nineteenth-century visual paradigms.

Book Croquet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy L. Rhoades
  • Publisher : Scarecrow Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780810825710
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Croquet written by Nancy L. Rhoades and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including books, pamphlets, periodicals, catalogs, trading cards, newspapers, photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, art prints, and advertisements, this subject bibliography of 679 references to croquet is based on the collection of varied material assembled by the late Dr. Rendell Rhoades, Professor of Biology at Ashland University, OH. The resulting collection encompasses the role croquet has played in literature, in biography, in art and music, in manufacturing and advertising, and in the attendant publicity. With an index of joint authors, pseudonyms, illustrators, and other pertinent information; and a chronological list of books on croquet compiled by Dr. R.W. Bray, Member of the British Croquet Association.

Book Games That Time Forgot

Download or read book Games That Time Forgot written by Adam Shefts and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parlor games were a staple of indoor entertainment during the 19th and early 20th century. Millions partook in these games which slowly fell out of favor for more modern forms of entertainment by the early 1910s.Eventually these games fell into obscurity, becoming lost over time.Games That Time Forgot shines a light on over 100 forgotten parlor games, which include detailed easy-to-follow instructions for those interested inreviving these games in their own households.This book will aid in turning any home into a location of living history, where you can enjoy these games as many did so long ago.

Book Round Games for All Parties

Download or read book Round Games for All Parties written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tr  bner s American and Oriental Literary Record

Download or read book Tr bner s American and Oriental Literary Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Literary Gazette and Publishers  Circular

Download or read book American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction  French  and German  in the Public Library of Detroit  Mich

Download or read book General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction French and German in the Public Library of Detroit Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slantwise Moves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas A. Guerra
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2018-08-14
  • ISBN : 0912295481
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Slantwise Moves written by Douglas A. Guerra and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1860, Milton Bradley invented The Checkered Game of Life. Having journeyed from Springfield, Massachusetts, to New York City to determine interest in this combination of bright red ink, brass dials, and character-driven decision-making, Bradley exhausted his entire supply of merchandise just two days after his arrival in the city; within a few months, he had sold forty thousand copies. That same year, Walt Whitman left Brooklyn to oversee the printing of the third edition of his Leaves of Grass in Massachusetts. In Slantwise Moves, Douglas A. Guerra sees more than mere coincidence in the contemporary popularity of these superficially different cultural productions. Instead, he argues, both the book and the game were materially resonant sites of social experimentation—places where modes of collectivity and selfhood could be enacted and performed. Then as now, Guerra observes, "game" was a malleable category, mediating play in various and inventive ways: through the material forms of pasteboard, paper, and india rubber; via settings like the parlor, lawn, or public hall; and by mutually agreed-upon measurements of success, ranging from point accumulation to the creation of humorous narratives. Recovering the lives of important game designers, anthologists, and codifiers—including Anne Abbot, William Simonds, Michael Phelan, and the aforementioned Bradley—Guerra brings his study of commercially produced games into dialogue with a reconsideration of iconic literary works. Through contrapuntal close readings of texts and gameplay, he finds multiple possibilities for self-fashioning reflected in Bradley's Life and Whitman's "Song of Myself," as well as utopian social spaces on billiard tables and the pages of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance alike. Highlighting meaningful overlap in the production and reception of books and games, Slantwise Moves identifies what the two have in common as material texts and as critical models of the mundane pleasures and intimacies that defined agency and social belonging in nineteenth-century America.

Book Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Detroit

Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Detroit written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: