Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville : excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure / David Freeland.
Freeland, David.
2009
F128.7 .F74 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville : excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure / David Freeland.
Author Freeland, David.
ISBN 9780814727638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814727638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814727621 (alk. paper)
081472762X (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xxviii, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number F128.7 .F74 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 974.7/104
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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