Title & Author:

Victorian resorts and hotels : essays from a Victorian Society autumn symposium / edited by Richard Guy Wilson.

Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : The Victorian Society in America, [1982]
©1982

Description:

127 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Series:

Nineteenth century, 0097-5184 ; v. 8, no. 1-2 (1982)

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Nineteenth century American resorts and hotels / Richard Guy Wilson -- Foreign travellers and American hotels / John Maass -- Hotel design in the work of Isaiah Rogers and Henry Whitestone / Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Jones -- Health restoring resorts on the New England coast / Marie L. Ahearn -- On the verandah : resorts of the Catskills / Betsy Blackmar and Elizabeth Cromley -- Wicker : the vacation furniture / Katherine B. Menz -- Cracker resorts / Lee H. Warner -- The true Carlsbad of America : the Hotel Broadwater and Natatorium of Helena, Montana / Patricia Dean -- The Hotel Del Coranado and Tent City / Ann Halpenny Kantor -- Meet me in Dreamland : the early development of amusement parks in America / Richard W. Flint -- From informality to pomposity : the resort casino in the later 19th century / Richard Guy Wilson -- Rustic connotations : furnishing national park hostelries / Rodd L. Wheaton.

ISBN:

0892570636 (paperback)
9780892570638 (paperback)

Subject:

Hotels United States History 19th century.
Resorts United States History 19th century.
Architecture, Victorian United States History 19th century.
Hôtels États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Lieux de villégiature États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture victorienne États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture, Victorian
Hotels
Resorts
United States

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
History
Illustrated works
Books.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Wilson, Richard Guy, 1940- editor.
Victorian Society in America, issuing body.
Nineteenth century (Victorian Society in America) ; v. 8, no. 1-2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 43791
Call No.: PO3988; ID:89-B3478
Status: Available