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Long Beach, California, USA - The Pike Amusement ParkLong Beach, California, USA (with Warships on the horizon). The Pike in was a seaside amusement park on a pier and famous for its signature attraction the Cyclone Racer (pictured). Date: circa 1930s
The Glasgow Garden Festival preparationsA photographer takes pictures from a cherry picker of the construction and preparartion for the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. The Daily Telegraph Date: 1988
Cartoon by H M Bateman, of crowds queueing, big dipper rideCartoon illustration by H M Bateman, of crowds queueing for a big dipper rollercoaster ride. Captioned, A Crowd Effect and Festival of Empire'
Glazing ware: a dipper at work in the dipping room. Date: 1913
White-throated dipper, Cinclus cinclus. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848
Krug Park, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, with a roller coaster in the background. Date: circa 1908
John Collins Big DipperJohn Collins " Big Dipper", at the Fun Fair at Battersea Pleasure Gardens, part of the Festival of Britain celebrations
White-throated dipper or water ouzel, Cinclus cinclus.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821
Romanian Country Fair, featuring a stage with a clown and a sword swallower or contortionist (?), some prize oxen, drinking and an amusement/pleasure wheel. Date: 1900
Cinclus cinclus, white-throated dipperPlate 122 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Cinclus mexicanus, American dipperPlate 370 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
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A man, wearing a conical hat, a straw or feather outer garment, and boots, is carrying a long-handled tool, possibly a dipper or mallet, from which fish are hanging. Date between 1830 and 1850
UK ceramics Industry at Burslem, Staffs (1 / 4)Dippers at work, glazing the ware, Date: circa 1910s
Festival of Britain and Fun Fair, with Danish royal visitorsViews of the Festival of Britain (South Bank) and Fun Fair (Battersea). Top left is the boating pond with a cardboard set suggesting English village buildings
Festival Boating LakeThe Boating Lake and Fun Fair (note John Collins Big Dipper) at Battersea Pleasure Gardens, part of the Festival of Britain celebrations
Wartime RomancesAustralian soldiers with their girls on the big dipper
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